Here’s some information explaining the types of COVID-19 testing covered by Medicare:
Diagnostic COVID-19 tests
Diagnostic tests are the basic tests ordered by your health care provider to check if you have COVID-19. In some cases, a home health nurse, laboratory technician or appropriately trained medical assistant may collect your specimen in your home.2
Note: Some Medicare Advantage plans may charge copayments, deductibles or coinsurance for clinical lab tests to detect or diagnose COVID-19.
Antibody COVID-19 tests
Antibody (or “serology”) tests help to see if you’ve developed an immune response to COVID-19 and may not be at immediate risk of reinfection.3
If you’re on Medicare, you pay nothing for an antibody test when [Bold] both of these apply:3
- your doctor orders the test
- you get the test from a laboratory, pharmacy, clinic, doctor’s office or hospital