CGM devices are classified as prescription medical devices, requiring a physician's prescription even for cash-paying patients.

“everything we've talked about as you said is still a medical device and it's a class to medical device physician writes a prescription and I'm only just talking about the cash patient so this is not about insurance anymore”

“Continuous glucose monitors are still considered a medical device... for that reason, they are prescribed under the care of a physician. However, increasingly, they're fairly commoditized with companies like NutriSense, January.AI and Levels, making them available to virtually anyone through a physician network and selling them usually for around a couple hundred dollars per month with the most well-known CGM brands being the Dexcoms and the Freestyle Libre.”