COVID costs could fall on insurers and consumers HHS has a meeting scheduled later this month with drugmakers, pharmacies, and state health departments to address the changes. Arielle Dreher Axios

Consumers should prepare to soon pay for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines as the federal government prepares to shift costs back to health insurers.

...We've known at some point we'd need to move over into the commercial market, and we’re approaching that time now," said Dawn O'Connell, assistant secretary at HHS for preparedness and response. ...