About the ICATT Program
The ICATT program will continue to provide no-cost COVID-19 testing for uninsured people that are symptomatic or exposed. More than 19,000 ICATT sites will offer no-cost COVID-19 vaccines under the CDC Bridge Access program to adults without health insurance and adults without full vaccine insurance coverage. An estimated 10,000 ICATT sites continue to support testing and disease surveillance needs at non-emergency levels. A list of no-cost COVID-19 testing sites can be found on the COVID-19 Testing Locator website. To find a no-cost COVID-19 vaccine near you please visit vaccines.gov.
The ICATT program provides access to COVID-19 testing in US communities to people that are uninsured and are symptomatic or exposed. ICATT also supports surge testing in state and local jurisdictions.
CDC has modified existing ICATT testing contracts with CVS Health, Walgreens, and eTrueNorth to include no-cost COVID-19 vaccines for the uninsured and underinsured. The CDC Bridge Access Program is providing updated COVID-19 vaccines to adults without health insurance and adults without full vaccine insurance coverage. No-cost COVID-19 vaccines through this program will be available until December 31, 2024. Many of the more than 19,000 sites that are offering no-cost COVID-19 vaccines are also offering no-cost COVID-19 testing services.
Types of Tests Offered under the ICATT Program
COVID-19 tests offered vary by location and vendor. Test types include laboratory-based nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) and rapid antigen point-of-care (POC) tests. Both types of tests can tell you if you have COVID-19. People typically receive their test results the same day or the day after getting tested.
Where are Services Offered
The ICATT program selects testing sites based on the Rural-Urban Commuting Areas (RUCA), CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and vendor pricing. Visit the CDC COVID-19 Testing Locator website to find a no-cost testing location with the vendors below.
- CVS Health provides testing and vaccines at participating CVS Health pharmacies.
- eTrueNorth provides testing and vaccines at independent pharmacies and retail locations including Health Mart and Topco.
- Quest Diagnostics provides testing at Quest Diagnostics Patient Service Center locations.
- Walgreens provides testing and vaccines at participating Walgreens pharmacies.
Following the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the CDC ICATT strategy includes maintaining smaller vendor testing networks with the structural capacity to rapidly respond to a public health emergency and ongoing vendor contractual agreements to provide testing and vaccine services to people without health insurance.
What Happens During a Surge of COVID-19
The ICATT program works with testing vendors to increase availability of testing services when there is a surge in testing demand. Additionally, ICATT can coordinate with state and local public health agencies, federal partners, and ICATT testing vendors to provide no-cost and short-term COVID-19 surge testing sites to socially vulnerable communities.
How the Partnership Works
The ICATT mission focuses on providing no-cost COVID-19 testing and vaccines to individuals that are underinsured and uninsured. ICATT pharmacy sites provide vaccine services, while a subset of ICATT pharmacy sites provide both testing and vaccine services. All sites offering vaccine services are open to the public regardless of insurance status.
ICATT pharmacy sites:
- schedule appointments
- register patients for testing and vaccines
- collect patient samples
- process tests
- report results to individuals and public health entities
- administer vaccines