Title: No Cost for COVID–19 Testing Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
No Cost for COVID–19 Testing Act
This bill requires private health insurance plans to cover testing for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) without imposing cost sharing for the duration of the public health emergency declared on January 31, 2020. This includes the cost of administering such approved tests and visits to health care providers for testing.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6213 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6213

To provide for coverage (without cost sharing or utilization management 
requirements) under group health plans and individual and group health 
              insurance coverage of testing for COVID-19.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 2020

   Ms. Wilson of Florida (for herself, Ms. Schrier, Ms. DelBene, Ms. 
  DeGette, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Sablan, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. 
  DeSaulnier, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Morelle, Mrs. McBath, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. 
 Shalala, Mr. Levin of Michigan, Mr. Trone, Ms. Stevens, and Mr. Scott 
 of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
      Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for coverage (without cost sharing or utilization management 
requirements) under group health plans and individual and group health 
              insurance coverage of testing for COVID-19.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Cost for COVID-19 Testing Act''.

SEC. 2. COVERAGE OF TESTING FOR COVID-19.

    (a) In General.--A group health plan and a health insurance issuer 
offering group or individual health insurance coverage (including a 
grandfathered health plan (as defined in section 1251(e) of the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act)) shall provide coverage, and shall 
not impose any cost sharing (including deductibles, copayments, and 
coinsurance) requirements or prior authorization or other utilization 
management requirements, for at a minimum the following items and 
services furnished during any portion of the emergency period defined 
in paragraph (1)(B) of section 1135(g) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1320b-5(g)) beginning on or after the date of the enactment of 
this Act:
            (1) In vitro diagnostic products (as defined in section 
        809.3(a) of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations) for the 
        detection of SARS-CoV-2 or the diagnosis of the virus that 
        causes COVID-19 that are approved, cleared, or authorized under 
        section 510(k), 513, 515 or 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
        Cosmetic Act, and the administration of such in vitro 
        diagnostic products.
            (2) Health care provider office visits, urgent care center 
        visits, and emergency room visits relating to testing for 
        COVID-19.
    (b) Enforcement.--The provisions of subsection (a) shall be applied 
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Labor, and 
Secretary of the Treasury to group health plans and health insurance 
issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage as if 
included in the provisions of part A of title XXVII of the Public 
Health Service Act, part 7 of the Employee Retirement Income Security 
Act of 1974, and subchapter B of chapter 100 of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986, as applicable.
    (c) Implementation.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
Secretary of Labor, and Secretary of the Treasury may implement the 
provisions of this section through program instruction or otherwise.
    (d) Health Insurance Terms.--The terms ``group health plan''; 
``health insurance issuer''; ``group health insurance coverage'', and 
``individual health insurance coverage'' have the meanings given such 
terms in section 2791 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
300gg-91), section 733 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act 
of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1191b), and section 9832 of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986, as applicable.
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