COVID-19 At Home Test Kits FAQs

On January 20, 2022, the Biden administration announced that beginning January 15, 2022, group health insurance plans would be required to provide coverage for authorized over-the-counter COVID-19 at-home testing products with no cost sharing requirement for members for up to 8 individual tests per member each month.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama will be utilizing Prime Therapeutics, the pharmacy benefits manager for the USA Choice and USA Select Plans, to comply with this requirement. Once fully implemented, the program will allow for no member out-of-pocket expense at preferred pharmacies for the purchase of over-the-counter COVID-19 at-home testing products. For more information, please refer to the FAQs..

Until the program is fully implemented, members may purchase over-the-counter COVID-19 tests and file for reimbursement electronically by logging in to their MyBlueCross account or through the mail-in paper claim process. The prescription claim form can be found here.

An announcement will be made once the pharmacy benefit option with Prime Therapeutics is fully implemented.