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White House to require health insurance coverage of at-home COVID tests

Posted On: Dec. 2, 2021 10:03 AM CST

The U.S. government will require private health insurance companies to reimburse customers for the cost of over-the-counter at-home COVID-19 tests under new measures to combat the pandemic, Reuters reports. The rule on reimbursement will benefit some 150 million Americans who have private health insurance, a senior administration official told reporters ahead of President Biden’s Dec. 2 announcement.