Uninsured North Carolina residents can receive COVID-19 testing through Medicaid providers. | Adobe Stock
Uninsured North Carolina residents can receive COVID-19 testing through Medicaid providers. | Adobe Stock
North Carolina will provide free COVID-19 testing residents who do not have insurance, Health and Human Services department officials.
"It's a good step to decrease barriers to testing," state Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen said in a Sept. 3 release.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' N.C. Medicaid Optional COVID-19 Testing program provides reimbursement to Medicaid providers for administering the examination to the uninsured, state and health officials.
"However, to help North Carolinians who don't have health insurance get the full range of care needed for COVID and to access needed preventive care, North Carolina needs to expand Medicaid like most other states have done," Cohen said in the release.
To receive the free testing through Medicaid, Health and Human Services mandated that patients live within the state, are not "eligible or enrolled" in Medicaid or have insurance and be a U.S. citizen or legal immigrant.
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