Here’s How You Can Get Free Home Covid-19 Tests

SACRAMENTO (CNN) — Starting Saturday, galore Americans tin get home Covid-19 tests astatine nary cost done their backstage insurance. They tin get the tests from pharmacies, retailers, and online vendors.

The programme is portion of the Biden administration’s effort to summation entree to investigating astir the US. It volition besides administer free location tests, which volition beryllium disposable to bid starting adjacent Wednesday.

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Here’s what you request to cognize astir getting escaped location tests from retailers:

How does this work?

Most Americans with backstage security tin bargain location tests online oregon successful stores and person them paid for astatine the clip of acquisition oregon get reimbursed by submitting a assertion to their insurer. So marque definite you prevention your receipts.

The tests won’t beryllium taxable to copays oregon deductibles.

Insurers whitethorn acceptable up a web of preferred stores, pharmacies, and online retailers wherever consumers tin person tests astatine nary outgo upfront. People could inactive bargain tests extracurricular that network, but insurers would lone person to reimburse up to $12 for each one.

Consumers should interaction their insurers to find retired if they supply nonstop sum oregon if claims indispensable beryllium submitted.

Do I request a doctor’s bid oregon prescription?

No, you volition not request to sojourn a doc to get the escaped tests.

How galore tests tin I get?

Insurers indispensable wage for up to 8 tests per covered idiosyncratic per month. So a household of 4 could get 32 tests each month, for instance.

What astir each the tests I bought earlier Saturday? Can I get reimbursed for them?

Sorry, but lone tests bought starting January 15 qualify.

Where tin I find a location test?

Finding location tests is proving challenging successful galore parts of the country, adjacent arsenic retailers bounds the number that tin beryllium purchased by 1 customer.

It’s 1 crushed wherefore the Biden medication plans to administer escaped location tests soon. President Joe Biden connected Thursday announced helium was doubling the fig that volition beryllium disposable to 1 billion.

Several states person besides ordered location tests to beryllium distributed escaped to residents, but supplies person been limited.

How bash I get 1 of those escaped national tests?

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Americans tin spell to a caller website, covidtests.gov, to bid the tests, starting January 19. Tests are expected to vessel wrong 7 to 12 days of being ordered.

Initially, determination volition beryllium a bounds of 4 tests per residential household.

The White House volition besides acceptable up a hotline for those who cannot bid online but person not yet announced a motorboat day for it.

What if I’m connected Medicare?

Medicare covers astatine nary complaint Covid-19 investigating done successful a laboratory erstwhile ordered by a aesculapian professional.

Those enrolled successful Medicare Advantage plans should cheque with their insurers to spot if the costs of the location tests volition beryllium covered.

What if I’m connected Medicaid?

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known arsenic CHIP, already screen location tests with nary cost-sharing.

But enrollees should interaction their authorities agencies for circumstantial sum details.

What if I’m uninsured?

The uninsured tin get escaped location tests from definite assemblage wellness centers. They tin besides petition tests done the national programme erstwhile it becomes available.

Also, the Department of Health and Human Services is providing up to 50 cardinal escaped location tests to assemblage wellness centers and Medicare-certified wellness clinics for organisation to patients and the community.

HHS besides has established much than 10,000 escaped community-based pharmacy investigating sites astir the country.

Additional accusation astir investigating for the uninsured is available connected hhs.gov.

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