The Biden administration plans to mandate that private health insurance providers reimburse people for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests to make those at-home kits free.
The federal health, labor and treasury departments will issue the guidance to insurers by Jan. 15, according to senior administration officials on a press call late Wednesday.
More than 150 million people in the U.S. have private health insurance and will be able to get the cost of at-home tests reimbursed. It remains to be determined just how many tests and at what frequency will be covered by insurers under this new…
