{"id":17750,"date":"2021-03-01T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17750"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:16:41","slug":"health-insurers-have-to-cover-covid-19-tests-for-asymptomatic-people-cms-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17750","title":{"rendered":"Health insurers have to cover COVID-19 tests for asymptomatic people, CMS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>CMS issued a guidance Feb. 26 that requires group health plans to waive cost-sharing for COVID-19 testing even if a person doesn&#8217;t have symptoms or a suspected exposure, among other requirements.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/health-insurers-have-to-cover-covid-19-tests-for-asymptomatic-people-cms-says.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/health-insurance.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14818\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/health-insurance-300x204.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/health-insurance-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/health-insurance.png 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS issued a guidance Feb. 26 that requires group health plans to waive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-emerging-health-issues","category-employer-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17751,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions\/17751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}