My insurance company has recently stopped covering my daughter's test strips for the Freestyle Flash meter. The reason that Blue Care Network of Michigan stopped coverage was due to a FDA Health Notification in August 2009 regarding false readings when using the GDH-PQQ glucose test strips in combination with certain therapeutic and non-glucose sugars. My daughter's pediatric endocrinologist and I feel that she is not at risk. Apparently, the FDA is basing this on 13 deaths since 1997 while the patients were staying at healthcare facilities and receiving treatment for failing kidneys. Since I could not find anything on your web site, I was wondering what your views are on this situation. Of course, I am filing a grievance with BCN since we have never experienced nor do we "fit" into the category for which they are discontinuing coverage of Freestyle products. Interestingly, the BCBS will still cover the Freestyle products.

Justin Delgado is husband to Kacie Doyle-Delgado, diagnosed at age 11. After more than a decade together, he considers himself to be an expert carb counter and Dexcom inserter. He graduated with his Master of Science in Finance from the University of Utah in 2013 and has been working in commercial banking since then. He attended his first Friends for Life conference in 2015 and is looking forward to volunteering with the teens.

Kacie Doyle-Delgado, MSN, APRN, NP-C, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 11 and attended her first Friends for Life conference in 2002. Since then, she has attended several FFL and regional conferences. She earned her BSN and her MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT and she is currently enrolled in a DNP program. She works for Utah Physicians Care Center in a diabetes specialty clinic. Kacie lives in Salt Lake with her husband, Justin Delgado, and their dogs. She is looking forward to volunteering with the teens again.

Marissa Town, BSN, RN, CDE, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and later earned her Certified Diabetes Educator credential. She has had type 1 diabetes since the age of two and has grown up with a passion for helping families living with diabetes. Marissa is currently working as a research nurse at Stanford University. She has always enjoyed working with families with diabetes at Children with Diabetes conferences, camps, and support groups. She and her husband Adam have two young children, Connor and Everly.