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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts; Division of Insurance · Massachusetts
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- M.G.L. c. 26, § 8A
- Issued
- 2021-08-31 Aug. 31, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-31
- End
- Replaces Bulletins 2020-02, 2020-06, 2020-07, 2020-10, 2020-16, 2020-23, 2020-25, 2020-32, 2021-01 and 2021-03; in force through the public health emergency (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 31, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care orders
- Addressees
- all commercial health insurers, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, HMOs and the Group Insurance Commission
- Functions reached
- IN health carriers (testing coverage without cost-sharing in Q3 2021)
- CB payers of Massachusetts providers
- WF employee testing
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State insurance and banking regulators AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING
Operative words
The state of emergency declared on March 10, 2020 ended as of June 15, 2021. As a result, many of the public health mandates that had been required since March of 2020 have been eliminated or modified. Please note that although the state of emergency has ended and the risk of COVID-19 transmission is reduced, it has not been eliminated. The Division expects that Carriers will enable [continued access to COVID-19 testing, treatment and vaccination]... Carriers shall continue to cover COVID-19 testing, which shall include testing, without cost-sharing, [for individuals with symptoms or exposure]
Enforcement
Notes
A third-quarter 2021 instrument confirming that the Massachusetts insurance regulator's COVID-19 coverage mandates continued after the state of emergency ended June 15, 2021, under the public health emergency declared May 28, 2021.
Retrieval noteIt is not itself an order, rule, directive, resolution or condition of a license or contract. Cite it as context and cite the underlying order or statute as the instrument).