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COVID–19 Testing Coverage Act of 2021

H.R. 5432 · 117th Congress · Sep 30, 2021 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to require group health plans and health insurance issuers to cover T cell immune response testing without the imposition of cost sharing.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “COVID–19 Testing Coverage Act of 2021”.

Sec. 2 Requiring group health plans and health insurance issuers to cover T cell immune response testing without the imposition of cost sharing

Section 6001(a) of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b–5 note) is amended—
(1)
in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting “(or, in the case of tests described in paragraph (3), beginning on or after the date of the enactment of such paragraph)” after “the date of the enactment of this Act”; and
(2)
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

“(3) Tests furnished to assess the T cell immune response of an individual to COVID–19.”