Care for COVID–19 Act of 2021
Summary
Care for COVID-19 Act of 2021 This bill requires private health insurance plans to cover, without any cost-sharing requirement, medically necessary services for individuals who have been diagnosed with, or are presumed to have, COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury must, not later than one week after this bill is enacted, jointly issue guidance specifying the applicable services. Further, HHS must reimburse insurance plans for the cost-sharing amount for such services that would otherwise have been required. The bill provides funding for this reimbursement.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Feb 5, 2021
Last action Feb 8, 2021
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Total actions
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Committee
3
Feb 8, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Feb 5, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Feb 5, 2021
Committee
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.
lower
Feb 5, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
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