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Post by mnkdfann on Mar 5, 2018 19:28:25 GMT -5
It's my understanding that they even help people to get insurance to cover as much as possible. Seems like a lot of work for any particular patient, but once they learn how to use it, they have a happy and hopefully long time customer Long time customer? Once VDEX gets the customer on Afrezza and dialed in properly, why does the customer ever have to go to a VDEX clinic again? What am I missing?
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Post by mnkdfann on Mar 5, 2018 19:33:18 GMT -5
So you believe more in tweets than in people visiting closed offices? I recall a guy, who believed that the lights of his car were on because his dashboard told him so despite a clear evidence slightly above his bonnet. I’m sorry, could you please produce the person that visited the closest office. Mr. Smart ass! To be fair, there have been such reports (VDEX offices closed) from posters in this very thread. E.g. first post on page 1, a post on page 9, etc.
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Post by sayhey24 on Mar 5, 2018 19:45:57 GMT -5
I’m sorry, could you please produce the person that visited the closest office. Mr. Smart ass! To be fair, there have been such reports (VDEX offices closed) from posters in this very thread. E.g. first post on page 1, a post on page 9, etc. I am not sure about being closed. I think its more a case of operating on a small scale and by appointment only. VDex is not Google but the question is can what they are doing scale. I think VDex is providing an ongoing consulting service and PWD keeps coming back to have their numbers reviewed. I am assuming they have figured out a way to get insurance to cover this. How often the PWD can come back I have no idea. Thats the rub between the virtual clinic and VDex. The Virtual Clinic is providing 24/7 coverage and a call anytime virtual coach. As Ondou moves forward with the M&M CGM and Google watch all PWDs should have CGM Cloud service. The "Cloud" scales. What the VC does not have is the personal "trust" factor. The PWD "trusts" their doctor and would would "trust" a personal hand-off. Will they "trust" the Cloud? Some will but the personal touch goes a long way with a scared confused person.
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Post by sportsrancho on Mar 5, 2018 20:08:04 GMT -5
I’m sorry, could you please produce the person that visited the closest office. Mr. Smart ass! To be fair, there have been such reports (VDEX offices closed) from posters in this very thread. E.g. first post on page 1, a post on page 9, etc. OK I thought he meant they were closed, in those two cases they were closed for one day.
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Post by mnkdfann on Mar 5, 2018 20:10:35 GMT -5
To be fair, there have been such reports (VDEX offices closed) from posters in this very thread. E.g. first post on page 1, a post on page 9, etc. OK I thought he meant they were closed, in those two cases they were closed for one day. When you put it that way, I'm not at all certain what he really meant. Maybe your reading was the correct one after all, IDK.
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Post by mnholdem on Mar 5, 2018 20:57:13 GMT -5
It's my understanding that they even help people to get insurance to cover as much as possible. Seems like a lot of work for any particular patient, but once they learn how to use it, they have a happy and hopefully long time customer Long time customer? Once VDEX gets the customer on Afrezza and dialed in properly, why does the customer ever have to go to a VDEX clinic again? What am I missing? What you're missing is that once refills are used, the patient must get a physician to write another prescription. I don't know of a single doctor (except, perhaps for Prince's Michael Jackson's) who will write a no-visit prescription for a disease as potentially dangerous as diabetes. It's true that the number of refills may determine the number of visits to the clinic, but return the patients must and if VDex was the clinic that gave the PWDs their lives back, of course they would return to VDex.
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Post by dreamboatcruise on Mar 5, 2018 21:08:11 GMT -5
seanismorris ... there are three in the Los Angeles area. Can't comment on their financial success or lack thereof. Why is it that they are always closed when someone if the board drops by? Why do they still share an office with some other small business? Their representatives told the board that they found the secret sauce to help their patients stay in range. So why is this not spreading like wildfire? Or is the truth quite simple: Most of the T2 diabetics are too stubborn/dumb/misinformed/undisziplined to help themselves and to be helped? I've known numerous professionals in the LA area (doctors, accountants, etc.) that have multiple offices that they split their time between to make it easier for their clients since driving even fairly short distances can be monumental pain in LA. They might be in one office on MWF and a different one on T and Th. Perhaps that is what is happening if they often don't seem open. Given that one of the founders is a participant here, I suppose they can jump in and shed light if they see fit.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 1:13:35 GMT -5
VDEX is doing fine from what I hear. And I'm not at liberty to say where I hear it, but I do hear it (I gotta be honest, though, there is some amount of money that I would take in return for telling you, though). They have had some very, very good ideas, and now they have to see if their very, very good ideas, work in the very, very different real world. I can also say there's some misinformation going on in this thread (kinda like most of the others). Now, is Afrezza flying off the shelves anywhere - no. But VDEX is accounting for its share and beyond that, providing the follow up that is critical for keeping people on. It's my understanding that they even help people to get insurance to cover as much as possible. Seems like a lot of work for any particular patient, but once they learn how to use it, they have a happy and hopefully long time customer - and it boils down to the insurance wars. It's not an easy business for now, if Afrezza ever hits the limelight, I'm sure they'll add to their locations quickly, but it would be imprudent to borrow money, etc., to expand too soon. Do their efforts make up a large percentage of weekly rxs? Come on Baba a little info, please. What do you hear?
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Post by dreamboatcruise on Mar 6, 2018 2:04:11 GMT -5
VDEX is doing fine from what I hear. And I'm not at liberty to say where I hear it, but I do hear it (I gotta be honest, though, there is some amount of money that I would take in return for telling you, though). They have had some very, very good ideas, and now they have to see if their very, very good ideas, work in the very, very different real world. I can also say there's some misinformation going on in this thread (kinda like most of the others). Now, is Afrezza flying off the shelves anywhere - no. But VDEX is accounting for its share and beyond that, providing the follow up that is critical for keeping people on. It's my understanding that they even help people to get insurance to cover as much as possible. Seems like a lot of work for any particular patient, but once they learn how to use it, they have a happy and hopefully long time customer - and it boils down to the insurance wars. It's not an easy business for now, if Afrezza ever hits the limelight, I'm sure they'll add to their locations quickly, but it would be imprudent to borrow money, etc., to expand too soon. Do their efforts make up a large percentage of weekly rxs? Come on Baba a little info, please. What do you hear? The fun of being a MNKD shareholder isn't actually knowing anything, it's the game of connecting the dots. If Baba doesn't tell us then it can be anything we wish it to be. I think we all know from past experience that when things aren't talked about that means great things are happening behind the scenes. Sort of like RLS... that's been silent for so long now it has to be something phenomenal about to be sprung on us. OK... that's a post.
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Post by mnkdfann on Mar 6, 2018 2:32:36 GMT -5
Do their efforts make up a large percentage of weekly rxs? Come on Baba a little info, please. What do you hear? The fun of being a MNKD shareholder isn't actually knowing anything, it's the game of connecting the dots. If Baba doesn't tell us then it can be anything we wish it to be. I think we all know from past experience that when things aren't talked about that means great things are happening behind the scenes. As I said in another thread, it's all about meteorites of gold landing day by day in a certain Danbury parking lot. No one at Mannkind has denied it yet, so you can bank on it.
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Post by dh4mizzou on Mar 6, 2018 7:46:41 GMT -5
So you believe more in tweets than in people visiting closed offices? I recall a guy, who believed that the lights of his car were on because his dashboard told him so despite a clear evidence slightly above his bonnet. I’m sorry, could you please produce the person that visited the closest office. Mr. Smart ass!
Sports. The term he used (bonnet) may be a clue that he's talking out of his (arse). If you get my meaning.
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Post by olebob1 on Mar 6, 2018 8:18:12 GMT -5
twitter.com/meggersmckinleyWorst blood sugar night ever. Brain is mush. I’d have been dead at midnight, barely found kitchen, overtreated the low, jumped so high that my eyes were broken. #Afrezza got me down quickly. Feels like someone kicked my head. I owe my life to #Dexcom. Gonna be a tough day. 6:59 AM - 5 Mar 2018
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Post by agedhippie on Mar 6, 2018 8:53:24 GMT -5
twitter.com/meggersmckinleyWorst blood sugar night ever. Brain is mush. I’d have been dead at midnight, barely found kitchen, overtreated the low, jumped so high that my eyes were broken. #Afrezza got me down quickly. Feels like someone kicked my head. I owe my life to #Dexcom. Gonna be a tough day. 6:59 AM - 5 Mar 2018 She is on Afrezza and she got that sort of low?
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Post by peppy on Mar 6, 2018 9:14:41 GMT -5
twitter.com/meggersmckinleyWorst blood sugar night ever. Brain is mush. I’d have been dead at midnight, barely found kitchen, overtreated the low, jumped so high that my eyes were broken. #Afrezza got me down quickly. Feels like someone kicked my head. I owe my life to #Dexcom. Gonna be a tough day. 6:59 AM - 5 Mar 2018 She is on Afrezza and she got that sort of low? not so fast, she may be a person on RAA's that uses Afrezza to come down from a big high? People that get a voucher and are trying afrezza? I went to twitter, no picture of the Dexcom. hmmmmm
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Post by brotherm1 on Mar 6, 2018 9:17:25 GMT -5
She’s a T1. As I read it, she did not say she obtained the low from Afrezza She said she over treated the low and then subsequently and consequently used Afrezza to quickly get her down from the high that resulted from the over treatment of the low
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