State officials have been warning residents to avoid unregulated sites. But many Americans – without free, quick and accessible alternatives for coronavirus testing – have rushed to the locations anyway.
The case draws attention to the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments law, which establishes lab standards for accuracy, reliability and timeliness of test results.Some experts say unscrupulous lab operators can take advantage of a regulatory opening that allows labs to register, test and bill before inspectors finish a CLIA certificate survey.
according to an 81-page report from the agency. The report listed the lab as being in "immediate jeopardy," a designation the federal government describes as one that requires immediate corrective action of conditions likely to injury, harm or death. Sanchez said she drove half an hour each way to the site twice that day to take a rapid test, waited hours each time and was told twice that the site lost her test. That evening, she received an email stating her test was negative.
Health providers that seek reimbursement from the federal fund must provide a unique national provider identifier as well as a tax identification number. Health Resources and Services Administration officials said the agency employs program integrity and oversight measures to ensure claims to the $1 billion COVID-19 uninsured program claims are legitimate. Labs and testing providers also must collect information from the person getting tested, including name, birth date and gender.
Some consumers continue to claim price gouging and delayed turnaround times, according to public health, consumer protection and justice departments across the U.S. Iowa has received five complaints of price gouging since November, regarding three different coronavirus testing providers, the attorney general’s office said. Two people said they were later charged more than $800 for coronavirus tests at a lab now facing two lawsuits that claim price gouging.
"As New Yorkers brace for a continued surge in Omicron cases through the winter, we cannot create harmful financial barriers that keep our communities from seeking testing," Attorney General Letitia James
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