Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Sep 29, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min · 14 segments
Kristen is a pediatric nurse who gives Tzield for a living. Her own son was caught at stage two, got the infusion, and she talks about what it bought them — and what it costs…
If it doesn't work, so I could see myself looking up and going, like imagine if you paid cash for it.
[laughs] Uh, so much money, Scott.
Um, my insurance company paid, so the adjusted rate, right?
Um, insurance-adjusted rate for all of it, including the PICC line, was, um, $478,000.
Yeah.
That was, that was what my insurance actually paid the hospital.
Like, what it would've been if y- if they, if you said, "I'm gonna buy this cash," I think it would've-
I don't, I don't even wanna know.
[laughs] It's so much money.
I remember you used to be complaining about, like way long ago, Tamiflu was like 70 bucks to have it compounded when my kids were little and they couldn't take pills.
And I was like, "That's a lot of money for medicine." And now that I've been a medical parent, I mean, for epilepsy for a long time, it's been over a decade, like, of being a medical parent for different disease, and two-ish years for this, like, I'm like, "This is n- like, 70 bucks was nothing." [laughs]
[laughs] I feel like I'd like to go back to the world where I was complaining about $70 please.
Right?
I mean, if it's fi- if it's a half a milli o- on the, the knockdown price, I mean, is it, is it a million?
If it doesn't work, so I could see myself looking up and going, like imagine if you paid cash for it.
[laughs] Uh, so much money, Scott.
Um, my insurance company paid, so the adjusted rate, right?
Um, insurance-adjusted rate for all of it, including the PICC line, was, um, $478,000.
Yeah.
That was, that was what my insurance actually paid the hospital.
Like, what it would've been if y- if they, if you said, "I'm gonna buy this cash," I think it would've-
I don't, I don't even wanna know.
[laughs] It's so much money.
I remember you used to be complaining about, like way long ago, Tamiflu was like 70 bucks to have it compounded when my kids were little and they couldn't take pills.
And I was like, "That's a lot of money for medicine." And now that I've been a medical parent, I mean, for epilepsy for a long time, it's been over a decade, like, of being a medical parent for different disease, and two-ish years for this, like, I'm like, "This is n- like, 70 bucks was nothing." [laughs]
[laughs] I feel like I'd like to go back to the world where I was complaining about $70 please.
Right?
I mean, if it's fi- if it's a half a milli o- on the, the knockdown price, I mean, is it, is it a million?
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