Insurance clearly doesn’t cover these for me as a) I am not diabetic and b) my insurance only covers the stick yourself monitors anyway. As I wanted to do an experiment to learn more about my responses to exercise, meals (of various types) and general insulin response (indirectly) I tried to get these inexpensively. Well the “retail” price is like 150$ for 14 days (hah!) but I got started with the free trial while I checked prices. I found that a 6 month purchase using goodrx (and its competitors) runs about 60$ for each 14-day unit. I decided that would be acceptable even though it wound up being $4.29/day
but when I went to CVS I found they don’t accept goodrx any more. So I transferred the Rx to HEB a wonderful regional grocery chain all of us Texans like and the guy said — let’s check our cash price.
210$ for 6, or 35$ each unit. $1.25 per day. That now looks like an acceptable number.
My plan is to return and report once I have a few months data.