Sensors for diabetics
With a scanner that you hold close to the sensor, you can see how your sugar level has evolved over the past eight hours. It is then no longer necessary to prick several times a day.
The sensor (a kind of plaster) is stuck to the upper arm and lasts for two weeks. It continuously measures the sugar level and has a memory of eight hours. This measuring method is not suitable for everyone. The sensor may cause an allergic reaction in some people. In case of fluctuations it will sometimes remain necessary to measure via the finger prick.
Important:
- This measurement method does not apply to children under the age of 4.
- Young people can be followed by a diabetes center for children until the age of 20. But even then they fall under the adult scheme from their 18th birthday.
- Young people who are diagnosed with diabetes when they are 16 years or older can choose to immediately join the adult scheme.
Discuss the possibilities
Discuss the possibility of this measurement method with your child's endocrinologist at the next check-up at the diabetes center.
Diabetes Center submits a request
The center will submit a request for conversion to CM and will provide you with the necessary sensors and reading device.
You pay the invoice
Payment is made by invoice. No additional supplements may be charged.
Refunds
The health insurance will reimburse all or part of the material for this bloodless blood sugar level measurement under certain conditions.
The sensors and reading device will be refunded.
- For children with type 1 diabetes, you will receive a full refund for the materials.
- For children with another form of diabetes you pay 2.47 euros per day.
The sensor and reader are reimbursed for adults with type 1 diabetes and some adults with type 2 diabetes.
- Patients with type 1 diabetes will receive a full refund for the materials.
- Patients with type 2 diabetes and a serious medical condition who meet the conditions (see below) pay 3.31 euros per day. This benefit applies for a maximum of six months.
- Other patients with type 2 diabetes shouldn't pay any supplements since July 1st 2.
What are the conditions?
- The child is followed by an accredited diabetes center for children.
- The child is between 4 and 18 years old.
- Children with type 2 diabetes who are only followed in a care program or a pre-programme are not eligible.
You will be followed by an accredited diabetes center for adults.
You have one of the following forms of diabetes:
- diabetes type 1;
- type 2 diabetes or another form of diabetes where:
- or at least three or more insulin injections and/or other injectable glucose lowering agents are required per day;
- or at least two insulin injections are required, supplemented with additional glucose-lowering injections that work over several days;
- type 2 diabetes and you have a serious medical condition (e.g. cancer, COPD, stroke) in which:
- either two injections of insulin and/or other injectable glucose-lowering agents per day are required;
- either one insulin injection is required, supplemented with additional glucose-lowering injections that work over several days;
- gestational diabetes requiring insulin injections;
- diabetes treated with insulin as a result of an organ transplant;
- diabetes treated with insulin and you are a kidney dialysis patient.
Persons with type 2 diabetes who are only followed in a care program or a pre-programme are not eligible.