Biden Team Mandates Coverage of Rapid, At-Home Covid Tests (1)

The Biden administration moved Monday to require private insurance companies and group health plans to cover the cost of at-home, rapid Covid-19 test kits beginning Jan. 15.

The new policy will cover a certain number of tests per month, depending on the size of the covered family, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said.

The move, previously announced in December, comes as the Biden administration wrestles with a historic rise in Covid-19 cases across the country, and is facing criticism for a nationwide shortage of at-home tests. The new coverage—and plans to ship 500 million at-home test kits any ...