Ascensia Diabetes Care, a global specialist diabetes care company, has established a new relationship with UnitedHealthcare. Specifically, this new relationship will give individuals enrolled in UnitedHealthcare commercial plans access to Ascensia’s CONTOUR NEXT portfolio of meters and test strips through their pharmacy benefit at a Tier 2 copay level.
“We are working together with UnitedHealthcare to help their members with diabetes obtain the highly-accurate CONTOUR®NEXT test strips and meters so that they can effectively manage their diabetes,” explained Robert Schumm, VP and Managing Director of Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc. “This change will give more people the opportunity to access these products, and at a reasonable cost.”
Prior to this change, UnitedHealthcare members were unable to obtain the CONTOUR®NEXT portfolio of meters and test strips, unless a Prior Authorization was approved by the plan.
