{"id":35907,"date":"2020-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/u-s-insurers-should-not-charge-copays-for-covid-19-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:10:07","slug":"u-s-insurers-should-not-charge-copays-for-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/17\/u-s-insurers-should-not-charge-copays-for-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Insurers Should Not Charge Copays for COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Government has been in discussions with insurers about covering COVID-19 vaccination at no cost to patients<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, June 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Health insurance companies are expected to cover vaccines for the new coronavirus without charging copays, U.S. officials say.<\/p>\n<p>At a media briefing Tuesday, a senior White House official said the government has been in discussions with insurers about covering COVID-19 vaccination at no cost to patients, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>No vaccines are yet available, but potential vaccines are in early trials.<\/p>\n<p>The insurance industry previously pledged to cover testing for COVID-19 without charging copays, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/b8bb6d9703c053cba098aa6b61392b5c\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has been in discussions with insurers about covering COVID-19 vaccination at no cost to patients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-35907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}