Insurance Reimbursement For Covid Testing

Unitedhealthgroup will also remove member cost sharing including copays coinsurance and.

Insurance reimbursement for covid testing. On march 16 the cms released details about how covid 19 testing would be reimbursed to health care providers administering the tests. Health care providers who have conducted covid 19 testing or provided treatment for uninsured individuals with a covid 19 diagnosis on or after february 4 2020 can request claims reimbursement through the program electronically and will be reimbursed generally at medicare rates subject to available funding. Treatment co pays and co insurance dozens of insurers including aetna cigna and humana have. As background the centers for medicare and medicaid services has announced that medicare will reimburse providers up to 100 per test depending on the test.

Laboratories using the test developed by the center for disease control and prevention cdc would be reimbursed 36 per test. Medicaid will cover the full cost of covid 19 testing for the uninsured as directed by the cares act. Covid 19 testing would continue to be covered with no cost sharing by private and public insurers for all tests consumers independently seek but the federal government would pay directly for. The families first coronavirus response act passed by congress requires health plans to fully pay for testing deemed medically necessary but as testing expands enough to allow people without.

Unitedhealthcare will reimburse out of network providers for covid 19 testing related visits and covid 19 related treatment or services according to the rates outlined in the medicaid fee schedule. Those using a non cdc test will be reimbursed 51 per test. Both cigna and aetna said it will waive copays or cost shares for coronavirus testing on many plans.