Certain states (including New York and California) are passing legislation that requires health insurers to provide novel coronavirus (COVID-19) testing without charge to insured members and to take other proactive steps to aid the coronavirus containment effort.  The third-party administrators of self-insured plans (Aetna, Anthem, and Cigna among the largest) are being fairly aggressive in extending some of these same practices to the self-insured plans that they administer.  However, some of these proposals can cause employers and self-insured plans to run afoul of certain technical legal requirements. Read our alert for details.