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WASHINGTON -- With an urgent funding request stuck in Congress, a federal agency said it can no longer cover covid tests and treatment bills for uninsured people, forcing it to stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday.

Without further funding approved by Congress, providers will no longer be able to submit claims for testing, treating and vaccinating the uninsured, according to a White House fact sheet. See: How the...

Around 31 million people in the U.S. don't have health insurance; meanwhile, the BA.2 subvariant threatens another wave.

As a federal aid package languishes in Congress, uninsured Americans will no longer be able to get a free Covid lab test.

As GOP Blocks Funds, Federal Agency Ends Covid Coverage for Uninsured -- "The rationing of Covid-care by ability to pay begins," warned one physician.

Congressional leaders have yet to pass a new COVID-19 funding bill, meaning that funds will expire on Tuesday.

A pharmacist in Northern Virginia says she's concerned for the uninsured in her community after receiving notice from the federal government that it will no...

The federal reimbursement program that let healthcare workers provide COVID-19 care for uninsured people is set to run out of cash Tuesday without signs of rescue as President Joe Biden and Congress find themselves at an impasse on funding.

The PREVENT Pandemics Act is a good bill. It isn’t enough to prevent pandemics.

With an urgent funding request stuck in Congress, a federal agency says it can no longer cover COVID test and treatment bills for uninsured people and will stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday.