Medicare Part B covers diabetes test strips as a type of durable medical equipment. Learn how to qualify for coverage and expected costs here.

It is against the law for a Medicare recipient to sell their test strips. More on how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services fights diabetes-related fraud can be found here.

They had data linked from the VA and Medicare on 363,996 veterans 65 years old and older with type II diabetes who used the VA healthcare system and received test strips during fiscal year 2009.

The Food and Drug Administration is warning patients with diabetes about the recall of 62 million glucose test strips used to measure blood sugar levels.

Diabetes Care announced on July 26th, 2013 that it was initiating a voluntary recall of 21 lots of the Nova Max Glucose Test Strips distributed both in the USA and outside the continental USA. This… ...