Some uninsured Americans will soon be on the hook for COVID-19 treatments and testing after the Biden administration and Congress allowed a federal program that reimbursed providers for virus-related care to expire this week.
allowed a federal program that reimbursed providers for virus-related care to expire this week.
to providers for testing, treating or vaccinating uninsured people, with $11.4 billion going toward covering testing, $5.8 billion to treatment and $1.6 billion to vaccinations. A person receives a throat swab from a healthcare worker at a drive-thru testing site inside the Bismarck Event Center as the coronavirus disease outbreak continues in Bismarck, North Dakota, Oct. 26, 2020.
Congress failed to do so, however, when Republicans and Democrats hit an impasse over how to pay for the proposal: GOP lawmakers wanted to repurpose COVID-19 relief money that states had not yet spent, while Democrats balked at the idea.Without the reimbursement program, the medical bills for uninsured COVID-19 patients hinges on the hospital prices – which oftenPassengers queue to get a PCR test against the coronavirus disease before traveling on international flights, at O.R.
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