Medicare will soon pay for at-home COVID-19 tests for beneficiaries.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday a new initiative that will allow Medicare beneficiaries and people with Medicare Advantage plans to access up to eight over-the-counter COVID-19 tests per month for free at participating pharmacies and retailers, beginning “in the early spring,” The Hill reports.
Medicare will directly reimburse participating pharmacies and other retailers, allowing beneficiaries to pick up tests for free.
“There are a number of issues that have made it difficult to cover and pay for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests. However, given the importance of expanding access to testing, CMS has identified a pathway that will expand access to free over-the-counter testing for Medicare beneficiaries,” the agency said in a statement.
The move comes shortly after the White House began requiring private insurance companies to cover the cost of eight at-home tests per person each month, as previously reported by Human Events News.
The policy, however, did not apply to Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare only pays for COVID-19 tests taken at laboratories. If the test is ordered by a physician, pharmacist or “authorized health care professional,” there’s no cost to the beneficiary.
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This one is easy to figure out, just follow the trail of treason back to the companies who are producing these masks, the politicians who authorized THE PEOPLE having to pay for them, and who owns the stocks in the companies that produce the free masks, that THE PEOPLE have to pay dearly for, which have proven totally ineffective. Fauci, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and the heads of the CDC are ALLLLLLL getting RICH while THE PEOPLE are getting taken and financially and medically diminished. They certainly are not letting this pandemic crisis go to waste but milking even the dead and the Medicare funds the dying depend upon. If you need 8 COVID tests/Month you are a Democrat socially hypnotized hypochondriac of the first order of fear, unfit to bear the name American.
Too bad there aren’t tests for democratitis because that’s killing more Americans then the china flu ever could.
AND folks wonder, WHY THE HELL our medicare expenses are so DAMN HIGH!