Dexcom G5

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will reverse a longstanding unpopular position on reimbursement for smartphone-connected continuous glucose monitors, CMS announced yesterday.

Yesterday Dexcom got the nod from the FDA to market their Dexcom G6, an integrated continuous glucose monitoring system (iCGM), making it the first interoperable CGM to get the designation.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has deemed certain therapeutic continuous blood glucose meters (CGMs) as durable medical equipment and thus are eligible for coverage.

The Dexcom G4 receiver Continuous glucose monitors are right now a good tool for a certain subset of people with diabetes, but there's still a majority of people, especially with Type 2 diabetes, for whom fingerstick glucometers are still the cheaper, more convenient option.