Tag: Diabetes Testing Supplies
DiabeticBuyBack marks two-year anniversary
April 9, 2026HME News Staff
BEND, Ore. – DiabeticBuyBack.com is celebrating its two-year anniversary with milestones that reflect both its financial impact and deeply personal mission. The company, which was founded by a woman whose family lives with diabetes, has paid more than $5 million to buy back test strips from more than 4,500 sellers and has made available nearly 100,000 boxes of diabetic supplies to those who couldn't afford high retail prices. "Diabetes runs in our family, so we know exactly what people...
Aptiva acquisition expands patient base, strengthens leadership in CGM market
October 8, 2025HME News Staff
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Aptiva Medical, a provider of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems and a portfolio company of Greenleaf Ventures, has completed its acquisition of VeraMed Health.
The company says the transaction significantly expands its patient base, strengthens its referral and payer networks, and accelerates its rapid growth – further reinforcing its leadership in delivering advanced diabetes management solutions to patients across the country.
"This...
‘Stepping over dollars to save pennies’: Providers deconstruct CGM bid plan
July 11, 2025Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON – CMS’s proposal to include continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) in the next round of competitive bidding fails to reflect the complexities of providing these devices, which have transformed diabetes care, providers say.
The move follows CMS’s decision to expand CGM coverage to beneficiaries with Type 2 diabetes in 2023, a change that has fueled rapid growth in the category. In 2022, before the change, Medicare spending on CGMs reached more than $1.1 billion.
“I...
Insulet appoints new CEO as Hollingshead steps down
May 1, 2025HME News Staff
ACTON, Mass. – Insulet has appointed Ashley McEvoy as president and CEO effective immediately.
She succeeds Jim Hollingshead, who has agreed to end his employment at the company and resign from its board of directors.
“Insulet continues to successfully deliver on its financial, clinical and operational objectives while advancing its mission to improve the lives of people with diabetes, and we are confident this leadership change will further the company’s...
Lincoln Health Supply makes time for patients
July 15, 2024Tracy Orzel
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Lincoln Health Supply recently highlighted the American Diabetes Association's 60-second Diabetes Risk Test to underscore how the provider can help educate and empower consumers to manage their health.
The ADA diabetes risk test is a risk score based on seven criteria that predict the risk of developing diabetes, including age, gender, family history of diabetes, blood pressure, ethnicity, physical activity and BMI and was promoted as part of Diabetes Alert Day...
Diathrive Health partners with Mark Cuban
February 20, 2023HME News Staff
SALT LAKE CITY and DALLAS – Diathrive Health, a diabetes and chronic disease management solution, and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company have announced a new collaboration that they say will give consumers lower cost medications and diabetes testing supplies and more personalized, higher quality care so that they can achieve better health outcomes. “As a practicing physician I saw first-hand the danger of patients not being able to afford medications and supplies," said Alex Oshmyansky,...
Judge allows test strip lawsuit to proceed
October 4, 2022HME News Staff
NEWARK, N.J. - A judge for the U.S. District Court of New Jersey has ruled that Roche Diagnostics Corp. and LifeScan can move forward with lawsuits against Alliance Medical Holdings and its network of retail pharmacies.
Roche, which is represented by Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, and LifeScan allege in their lawsuit that Alliance defrauded them by purchasing wholesale test strips on the secondary market and then marketing and selling them as higher-priced retail test strips.
They...
Arriva settles False Claims allegations for $160M
August 3, 2021HME News Staff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Arriva Medical and its parent company, Alere, have agreed to pay $160 million to settle allegations they violated the False Claims Act.
The federal government alleged that, from April 2010 until the end of 2016, Arriva, with Alere’s approval, paid kickbacks to Medicare beneficiaries by providing them free or no-cost glucometers and by routinely waiving, or not collecting, co-payments for meters and diabetes testing supplies. Specifically, it alleged that Arriva...
Diabetes consolidation continues: Advanced Diabetes acquires US MED
July 28, 2021HME News Staff
CARLSBAD, Calif. – Advanced Diabetes Supply has acquired US Medical Supply (US MED), a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital that provides continuous glucose monitors and medical supplies.
Founded in 1996, the Doral, Fla.-based US MED contracts with more than 500 insurance plans covering nearly 200 million lives. It was acquired by H.I.G in 2015.
“H.I.G. served as a value-added partner to our leadership team and supported the transformation of the business,” said...
Roche, Priority Healthcare settle for $43M
February 24, 2021HME News Staff
INDIANAPOLIS - Priority Healthcare Corp. has agreed to pay $43 million to Roche Diagnostics to settle allegations that it filed fraudulent claims for diabetes testing supplies.
In a lawsuit filed in September 2018, Roche, a manufacturer of diabetes testing supplies, says it paid $37.5 million in “unwarranted” rebates to insurance companies and their pharmacy benefit managers for claims submitted by PHC, a network of pharmacies in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas,...