My Medicare insurance carrier started offering OTC products this year. We are allowed $30 per quarter, and the amount does not carry over into the next quarter. One must only order through their website. I got $25 worth of their products for free. If I bought the same thing at the grocery store it would have cost me $4.32.
What a ripoff... I suspect Medicare is paying the insurance company $30 per person, and they get to keep anything that is not used that quarter. Plus the exorbitant markup on the products make it a real money maker for the insurance company.