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California has become the first state to require health insurance plans to cover at-home tests for sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, chlamydia and syphilis — which could help quell the STI epidemic that has raged nearly unchecked as public health departments have focused on covid-19.
A new law makes California the first state to require that health insurance plans, including Medicaid, cover home STI tests. But some details still need to be worked out.
A new law will make California the first state to require that health insurance plans, including Medicaid, cover home STI tests.
MADERA, Calif. — Growing up amid the dusty agricultural fields of the Central Valley, Ruby Marentes-Cabrera can’t recall a time when it wasn’t difficult to breathe.
Many of the 14 million patients in Medi-Cal get their care from subcontractors or sub-subcontractors. For patients with difficult health care needs, it can be hard to know where to turn.