{"id":9496,"date":"2022-01-31T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2022-01-31T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:12:59","slug":"health-insurance-information-on-covid-19-at-home-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2022\/01\/31\/health-insurance-information-on-covid-19-at-home-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Health insurance information on COVID-19 at-home tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, federal regulators have issued issued guidance regarding mandatory coverage of at-home or over-the-counter COVID-19 diagnostic tests.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit Mercy&#8217;s health plan will provide direct coverage, whether it&#8217;s by the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) at point of sale of via a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/faculty-staff\/hr\/benefits\/Direct-Member-Reimbursement-Claim-Form1.pdf\">claims reimbursement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plan participants also have the option for a mail order program. Tests can be ordered through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.covidtests.gov\/\">government&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Any claims submitted under the medical plan will be denied by Trustmark, as claims must be submitted under the prescription plan. For OTC COVID-19 tests, plan participants are limited to eight tests per 30 days or calendar month. Under the plan out-of-network reimbursement is limited to $12 per test.<\/p>\n<p>All receipts should also be saved as they are required for reimbursement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, federal regulators have issued issued guidance regarding mandatory coverage of at-home or over-the-counter COVID-19 diagnostic tests. Detroit Mercy&#8217;s health plan will provide direct coverage, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[2491,3046,2489,5195,4230,5200,660,5199,5198,5197,5196],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-2ta","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}