Being told by your doctor that you have borderline diabetes can be a scary thing. It’s a life changing situation. But, every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are being told just that as the number of diabetes cases continually rises. Currently, there are over 18 million known case of diabetes in the U.S. that have diabetes. It’s estimated that there’s approximately 6 million more people that have diabetes and don’t (more…)

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When your doctor writes prescriptions for your diabetes medications, do you fill them? A new study that measured physician prescription orders with prescription insurance claims found that 1 in 3 people with diabetes do not fill their prescriptions.

A press release from Geisinger Health System states that of the 1.5 million people who are newly diagnosed, approximately 400,000 do not fill their prescriptions for their diabetes meds.

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