Can you buy these on your own? If so then do you know what they cost?
I'm asking because I believe some open competition would probably drive down the price.
Generally, test strips cost about a dollar a piece. They are actually tiny electronic devices.
I don’t know about the strips the VA uses, but hubby gets his strips from an Army hospital and we have tried to buy them elsewhere and no one carries his type of strip. The pharmacists always say no one else has the same type of tester the Army gives patients. In order to buy our own strips we would have to buy a more common type of tester- glucometer or whatever it is called. It is one of the many odd issues with government run healthcare- Army, VA. Coming soon to everyone it seems.
>>> “Can you buy these on your own? If so then do you know what they cost?”
Walmart, for one, carries a variety of diabetic testing supplies. It’s the test strips that seem to range the widest in price. I have a nice Bayer glucometer from when I had medical coverage, but the strips for it are among the most expensive. Once my dwindling supply runs out, I’m going to buy a different glucometer that’s cheaper to feed.
Or I might just go without testing. Dunno. *shrug* I’m gonna be without Metformin in due time as well. I sure wish it didn’t take a doctor and scrip just to get the stuff.