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California Insurance Response to COVID-19

March 19th, 2020

On March 5, 2020, the California Department of Insurance and California Department of Managed Health Care each issued guidance stating that commercial health insurance carriers and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are immediately required to reduce cost-sharing (including copays, deductibles and coinsurance) to zero for all medically necessary screening and testing for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (the “Guidance”). The Departments want to ensure that cost does not affect consumers’ access to medically necessary screening and testing for COVID-19.

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