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Insurers will cover virus tests, but check if costs apply

by Associated Press
| March 6, 2020 12:05 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after Vice President Mike Pence assured Americans that lab tests for coronavirus would be covered by private and government health insurance, that promise appears to be less than airtight.

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