{"id":5346,"date":"2021-02-10T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/newscast\/news\/publication-officielle-de-lavis-concernant-le-systeme-flash-de-surveillance-du-glucose\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:04:10","slug":"reimbursement-of-freestyle-libre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/news\/reimbursement-of-freestyle-libre\/","title":{"rendered":"The flash glucose monitoring system is now covered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"classic-block\">The FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system is now on the List of exceptional medications covered by Qu\u00e9bec&#8217;s basic drug insurance plan for glycemia self-monitoring in people with diabetes being treated with&nbsp;insulin&nbsp;injections.<\/p>\n<p>The authorization of payment is for adults aged 18 years and older who have at least 2 years of experience in self-managing their diabetes, who meet the following three criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>intensive insulin therapy<\/li>\n<li>frequent or severe hypoglycemia problems<\/li>\n<li>the necessity of glycemia self-monitoring a minimum of eight times per day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The RAMQ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramq.gouv.qc.ca\/SiteCollectionDocuments\/professionnels\/formulaires\/8203.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">authorization form<\/a> must be completed by the attending physician.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FreeStyle Libre is now covered by Qu\u00e9bec&#8217;s basic prescription drug insurance plan for people with diabetes who meet three criteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"194,12761,5391,10002,9294,9530","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26527,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions\/26527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}