Congress required health plans to fully cover COVID-19 testing, but insurance companies say they should only have to pay if tests are 'medically necessary' or ordered by a doctor.
Congress required health plans to fully cover COVID-19 testing, but insurance companies say they should only have to pay if tests are"medically necessary" or ordered by a doctor.Public health officials are encouraging protesters to get tested for the coronavirus, and as it becomes more widely available, precautionary testing is becoming more common. Insurance companies argue they can't just pay for everyone to get tested whenever they feel like it.
LYNNE CUSHING: I had hoped to kind of stay on the periphery or least along the edge a little bit. But I didn't think about the fact that everybody's going to be chanting, all these - there's going to be a lot of forced air, you know, coming out at people in the demonstration.UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: This is what democracy looks like.
SABRINA CORLETTE: That requirement may only apply if you've been referred for a test by a health care professional after presenting with symptoms of the disease. GROW: And that's why we think it's very important to approach testing with a very strategic approach, one that's based on science and has very clear direction on who gets tested, how often, what that test result means, how we take action and where the funding comes from.
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