Almost all private health plans include hospital coverage, with patients in different plans left to pay different amounts of the bill, and that arrangement is intact in the era of covid-19. ADAD“We haven’t agreed to waive out-of-pocket costs for treatment,” said Kristine Grow, a spokeswoman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry’s main trade group. ADThe scenario is more complicated now that private testing companies have started to get involved. It is less clear whether testing costs are being covered by a relatively small slice of the industry that Trump health officials have been promoting: short-term health plans, as well as health plans sold to groups of individuals and associations. ADOn Thursday, the Internal Revenue Service issued a notice that private health plans with high deductibles — increasingly common across the country — can eliminate those deductibles for services related to the coronavirus without risking their tax status.

Source: Washington Post March 12, 2020 18:20 UTC