Most people don't know that major insulin and CGM manufacturers including Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, Dexcom, and Abbott operate Patient Assistance Programs that provide free or heavily discounted supplies to people who qualify. These programs exist specifically for uninsured and underinsured patients.

The problem is accessing them. Applications are complex. They require a licensed prescriber's signature. They involve income documentation, insurance verification, and follow up. For a patient already managing a chronic illness while working multiple jobs or caring for a family, that paperwork is an impossible wall.

Hope for Glucose tears down that wall. We sit with patients, complete applications on their behalf, coordinate with our Medical Director for required signatures, follow up with manufacturers, and track every application until supplies are in the patient's hands. We do not charge a single dollar for any of it.

Southern Nevada has one of the highest rates of uninsured residents in the country. Las Vegas's workforce is built on service industry jobs that frequently offer no health benefits. Diabetes does not care about your insurance status but the cost of managing it does.

In Clark County alone, tens of thousands of people are living with diabetes without adequate access to the supplies they need to manage it safely. Rationing insulin is not a minor inconvenience. It is life threatening. People die from it. People lose limbs, kidneys, and eyesight from complications that free supplies could have prevented.

Hope for Glucose starts here, in our city, with our community.