Healthcare DIVE June 25, 2020
Maria Rachal

Dive Brief:

  • Health insurers are not required to cover COVID-19 testing for employer or surveillance-related purposes alone, three agencies clarified in new guidance this week.
  • HHS and the Departments of Labor, and Treasury originally interpreted testing coverage requirements laid out by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in April 11 guidance. Those pieces of legislation broadly required insurers to cover COVID-19 diagnostic testing without patient cost-sharing or prior authorization.
  • Tuesday’s 18-page frequently asked questions document in part addressed an open question among insurers about surveillance screening in workplaces. It says that “testing conducted to screen for general workplace health and safety (such as employee ‘return to work’ programs), for public...

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