Senior Executive at Texas ER Chain Reveals Real Reason For Spike in Coronavirus Cases

Gateway Pundit ^ | 06/30/2020 | Cristina Laila

[Sequoyah101]

Nope. Insurance does not cover it until I accumulate $7,500 in expenses. I pay for my own insurance and it costs me about $24,000 a year for the two of us. It is only worth anything for a catastrophic event.

[Sequoyah101]

I don’t donate or volunteer.

In 51 years of tax paying I’ve given enough.

[timestax]

[Sequoyah101]

I too had a splitting headache that would not go away or ease but no respiratory problems save for a dry cough for several days BEFORE the fever and chills. Temp was similar, about 99.7 so technically it does not qualify for a fever of interest by the medicos. Started on a Saturday and ended on a Friday.

I went to the doc because I fell pretty hard a few feet just before I got “sick” and wondered if it was associated or if I got too hot. Could not see the doc for over a week and I was better by then. Go figure, by the time you see a doc you are either well or dead. If you go to the ER it could end up the same way but it costs a hell of a lot more.

Doc said he had seen similar three other times the previous week, tested one, negative but he does not have much confidence in the testing either.

Strange goings on. Now it is just down to surviving the summer heat which gets harder every year that passes. I never have liked summer. Can’t hardly get a thing done outdoors since the best I can do is drag along and sweat.

[Black Agnes]

Donating plasma to another human who needs it is not the same as paying taxes.

Sorry you feel that wa y.

[Zhang Fei]

[Nope. Insurance does not cover it until I accumulate $7,500 in expenses. I pay for my own insurance and it costs me about $24,000 a year for the two of us. It is only worth anything for a catastrophic event.]

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You’ll want to check with your health plan, but I believe Congress passed mandatory coverage for coronavirus testing:

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https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/state-and-federal-efforts-to-improve-access-to-covid-19-testing-treatment/#test
[The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R.6201), signed into law on March 17, requires nearly all health plans – including Medicare and Medicaid – to pay for COVID-19 testing, including the lab fees and the fees associated with the doctor’s office, urgent care clinic, or emergency room where the test is administered. For the duration of the COVID-19 emergency period, health plans cannot impose any cost-sharing or prior authorization requirements for COVID-19 testing.

Numerous states had already implemented similar regulations, but states can only regulate fully insured health plans. The federal government had to step in to require self-insured plans to fully cover COVID-19 testing, and to address the issue in the states that hadn’t taken action on their own.

H.R.6201 does not apply to short-term health plans, healthcare sharing ministry plans, or other health plans that aren’t considered minimum essential coverage. But Washington state’s COVID-19 testing requirements (which have been extended through July 3) do apply to short-term health plans, requiring them to cover testing with no cost-sharing, just like other health plans (North Dakota’s bulletin also applies to short-term plans, but it asks, rather than requires, insurers to waive cost-sharing for COVID-19 testing).

Washington state has also expanded the no-cost testing guidelines to include tests for influenza, RSV, norovirus, and other coronaviruses, as long as they’re billed in conjunction with a diagnosis code related to COVID-19. Wyoming is also requiring health insurers to waive the cost of diagnostic testing for influenza and RSV. New Mexico is also requiring insurers to waive cost sharing for influenza and pneumonia texting (and treatment, as described below).]