You have to find out if it's an exclusion by your employer or from the insurance company. Although from what you have said it sounds like it's probably the insurance company.

If it's from the insurance company then you should be able to fight it and get it overturned. Your doctor should be able to help with that by helping you prove medical necessity. This will need to include things like proof of hypoglycemia unawareness, large swings in blood sugar, frequent hypo or hyper glycemia, problems overnight, lifestlye that makes it hard to test, testing a large number of times per day (eg a couple of times per hour) or being on an insulin pump. You don't need to have all of those but they are things that can help prove that you need a CGMS.

If it's from your employer then you are out of luck because the only way it will be covered is if you can convince them to go with a higher priced plan which would mean more money for them and all employees.

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