Posted on 01/31/2021 1:00:33 PM PST by RBW in PA
Fauxi and Gates need that $$$$$$.
Now I do believe there could be a fee for your ins co.
Just hunt around. Maybe it was free because I'm 77.
But do you get a charge out of it?
Or with how the test was coded when sent to insurance for claims processing.
“the test is free but the lab fee to read it is not in many cases.”
There are all types of scam$ with the so called free testing for everyone.
In late March last year, a semi retired MD told me to sign up for the county’s free test for everyone. All of those who were with one of the local hospitals or the big HMO were ejecting from the “free: online site after entering our names, addresses and zip codes.
Shortly after, the local hospitals told their patients that they would not accept any of the so called free testing results. They had to be tested by the labs in the hospital doing a same day procedure or an admit.
Why do you expect to get free stuff?
Do you have some problem with paying for services?
Are you some kind of socialist?
Of course you should fight it.
I have been tested twice. Both were negative. Both were “drive-thru” testing. The only ID I had to present was my driver’s license and in one of the tests I wasn’t asked for it.
In both cases a couple of days later I got a phone call notifying me of the negative result.
Since the test was supposedly “free,” if I had been asked for ins info I would have objected. If they gave me static I would have left w/out the test.
On a related note, when I signed up online for the covid vaccine there was a page for insurance information. If you checked “medicare”, all the rest of the page was grayed out. The only personal information they asked for was first, middle initial, last, address, mother’s maiden name, date of birth. No ss #, no driver’s license #, only email address and phone where you could be reached.
I’d assume what he has a problem with is bait and switch. Fraudulently telling him it’s free then billing for it. I would too. In general, bait and switch is illegal.
Your comment is puzzling to me. Medicare fraud exists, to be sure, but it nearly always is due to private providers submitting fraudulent claims.
A very real possibility, my FRiend.
If the test was supposed to be free, you should have refused to give them your insurance information. If they persisted, you should have refused the free test. You learn stuff like that with age and paying attention.
My son, with no insurance, had to pay $150 for a rona test.
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