The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- FFCRA sec. 6001; CARES secs. 3201-3203
- Issued
- 2021-02-26 Feb. 26, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-02-26
- End
- end of the PHE (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Feb. 26, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersOther
- Addressees
- group health plans and health insurance issuers
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Financial Services SEC-13
Operative words
plans and issuers must cover COVID-19 diagnostic testing for an asymptomatic individual without cost sharing, prior authorization or other medical management requirements [and] must provide coverage without cost sharing for all COVID-19 vaccines... the requirement to cover the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine became effective January 5, 2021, and the requirement to cover the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine became effective January 12, 2021.
Enforcement
ERISA, the Code and the PHS Act
Notes
Confirms the mandates' operation in 2021; the HHS Secretary renewed the PHE effective Jan. 21, 2021 (recited).