COVID home tests: Americans to be reimbursed starting Saturday
CBSN
Americans with private insurance will be able to ask for reimbursement for rapid COVID-19 tests beginning Saturday — but any tests purchased before January 15 will not qualify.
The requirement from the Biden administration allows eight tests a month per person covered by the insurance policy. For instance, a household of two people covered by one private health insurance plan would be able to request reimbursement for 16 tests every month.
The new requirement will cover any over-the-counter COVID-19 test given emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That list includes the Abbott BinaxNOW at-home tests, iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test, Siemens Healthineers' rapid COVID-19 antigen self test, and the Flowflex COVID-19 antigen home tests, among dozens of others. (See here for the full list, which continues to expand.)
