The price of remaining unvaccinated against COVID-19 is getting higher by the day.
The cost of refusing increasingly common job vaccination requirements might mean regular testing, or no paycheck altogether.
As companies wait for details on a federal rule that employers with at least 100 workers must require vaccinations or regular testing, there’s a question of whether workers will be held responsible for any of the financial toll — either directly for the testing itself or indirect, future costs. Open enrollment is a yearly window in the fall when people can begin, end or alter the extent of their health care coverage .
Almost three-quarters of the biggest private insurers in America’s 50 states and the District of Columbia have stopped waiving cost-sharing on COVID-19 treatment, the researchers said in August. By the end of October, the share of insurers that are ceasing to foot the full bill could rise to over 80% they said.
An average annual deductible for an employer-sponsored plan last year came to $1,644, Kaiser Family Foundation data showed. The out-of-pocket costs for pneumonia hospitalizations, an illness that could require similar treatments as COVID-19, had an average $1,300 out-of-pocket cost, researchers noted.
Likewise, Aetna CVS, +0.94% in February ended the cost-sharing waivers for treatment within various state plans — but still covers vaccination and testing. “To keep members safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Aetna continues to provide member cost-sharing waivers such as those related to COVID-19 vaccination and testing,” a spokesman said.
Though some of Nathanson’s employer clients are weighing the idea of surcharges, some surveys suggest surcharges are few and far between so far. Three percent of employers either had a surcharge, or were definitely planning on one, according to a poll earlier this month from Mercer, the human resources consulting firm. Another 14% were weighing the idea, said the poll with more than 1,000 participants.
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