CityMD and some other privately run health care providers in New York City are starting to charge uninsured patients for COVID-19 tests and treatments after a key federal funding stream dried up on March 22.
Similar funds to cover the cost of administering COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured patients ran out on Tuesday. Although providers can’t charge patients for the shots, they can stop offering them, according to an analysis from KFF.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced in mid-March that it would stop accepting reimbursement claims for these COVID-19-related services “due to a lack of sufficient funds.” The money dried up as lawmakers in Congress reached an impasse last month over how much more COVID-19 aid to approve.
I'm sure it's a great consolation to the uninsured that money for public health is instead going to send weapons to Ukrainian neo-nazis.
