Arizona's largest COVID-19 testing provider, Embry Health, is growing concerned over funding for uninsured patients as pandemic funding from Congress wasn't given out after all.
Local, state and federal agencies are loosening COVID-19 restrictions across most states, but cases are climbing in other countries, like Britain, France and Germany, with a new sub-variant of omicron.
The White House has announced it's running out of money to cover testing for people who are uninsured after Congress got rid of the proposed $22.5 billion in pandemic funding. This comes as cases and hospitalizations continue to drop inmore than 5,000 cases and 457 deaths in the last week. Raymond Embry, the CEO of Arizona's largest COVID-19 testing provider, Embry Health, says he's concerned about this because 50% of patients at Embry are uninsured. He got an email days ago saying that unless Congress passes another bill to cover it, the funding will stop by March 22.
He says they will begin covering the expenses themselves so that those uninsured can continue to have access to COVID-19 testing. "Providing services without guaranteed payment from the federal government, Embry Health, Embry Laboratories, and the other laboratories we work with such as Sonora Quest, is taking decisive leadership steps to ensure we don't stop testing the uninsured. We are going to take the financial risk of continuing to provide this testing to parents, even the uninsured patients, while funding is sorted out in Washington," Embry said.
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