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'It Felt Like Deception': An Elite NYC Hospital Charges Huge COVID Test Fees

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'It Felt Like Deception': An Elite NYC Hospital Charges Huge COVID Test Fees

State-run testing sites in New York do not charge patients or collect health insurance information for the COVID nasal swab tests. A study published last year found that a swab test at a hospital can run from $20 to $850. Some independent laboratories have charged more, billing $2,315.

The Lenox Hill Greenwich Village center bills $671 for its coronavirus test, six times what major labs such as LabCorp and Quest charge. The rest of the price discrepancy comes from the emergency room fees.

Sarah Nathan was not looking for emergency-level care when she was tested at Lenox Hill Greenwich Village. She just needed a test to return to her job as a nursery schoolteacher.

The bill for her visit came to $3,194, which her insurance negotiated down to $2,084. She recalls asking a front desk representative whether she would be billed for an emergency room visit. She said she was told she would not be.

Nathan worries about the impact these high fees could have on her premiums.

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The best scenario for America is get these overly self delusional priviledged minded people out of determining medical billing cost,
Bring in "Diversity" and don't get it from any of the Ivy league schools. Get people who go to colleges that know what the average Americans life truely is and the reality economics of the average American.

It's time America wake up, and stop submitting to these people who grow up wealthy with these promised jobs, with these highly overly compensated position, which they think they are entitled to because they came from wealth.

Get people from the many colleges across the nation who came from everyday working families, who know how much it takes to earn a dollar, and how honest that work must be. When we realize how to stop falling into to the "pay the wealthy more just because they came from wealth"... Then we can get fair pricing equity and stop all the stupid rip off fee and exaggerated cost that is being thrust upon society.


Then; the exaggerated and excessive fees and cost will drop dramatically.

ACA could have put a stop to this madness of excessive fees and exaggerated charges a decade ago, if people had paid attention and actually read and understood the plan and design.
It's time for people to stop being led by "blind and willful ignorance" and being fleeced in the process.

At some point people will be forced to wake up and realize Republicanism is a Detriment To The General Society of Working People and This Nation, and the Equity of Peoples Lives, Community and Services.
 
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'It Felt Like Deception': An Elite NYC Hospital Charges Huge COVID Test Fees

State-run testing sites in New York do not charge patients or collect health insurance information for the COVID nasal swab tests. A study published last year found that a swab test at a hospital can run from $20 to $850. Some independent laboratories have charged more, billing $2,315.

The Lenox Hill Greenwich Village center bills $671 for its coronavirus test, six times what major labs such as LabCorp and Quest charge. The rest of the price discrepancy comes from the emergency room fees.

Sarah Nathan was not looking for emergency-level care when she was tested at Lenox Hill Greenwich Village. She just needed a test to return to her job as a nursery schoolteacher.

The bill for her visit came to $3,194, which her insurance negotiated down to $2,084. She recalls asking a front desk representative whether she would be billed for an emergency room visit. She said she was told she would not be.

Nathan worries about the impact these high fees could have on her premiums.

end quote

The best scenario for America is get these overly self delusional priviledged minded people out of determining medical billing cost,
Bring in "Diversity" and don't get it from any of the Ivy league schools. Get people who go to colleges that know what the average Americans life truely is and the reality economics of the average American.

It's time America wake up, and stop submitting to these people who grow up wealthy with these promised jobs, with these highly overly compensated position, which they think they are entitled to because they came from wealth.

Get people from the many colleges across the nation who came from everyday working families, who know how much it takes to earn a dollar, and how honest that work must be. When we realize how to stop falling into to the "pay the wealthy more just because they came from wealth"... Then we can get fair pricing equity and stop all the stupid rip off fee and exaggerated cost that is being thrust upon society.


Then; the exaggerated and excessive fees and cost will drop dramatically.

ACA could have put a stop to this madness of excessive fees and exaggerated charges a decade ago, if people had paid attention and actually read and understood the plan and design.
It's time for people to stop being led by "blind and willful ignorance" and being fleeced in the process.

At some point people will be forced to wake up and realize Republicanism is a Detriment To The General Society of Working People and This Nation, and the Equity of Peoples Lives, Community and Services.
This is the point where I extol the virtues of UHC whereby all our testing is carried out free of charge. This sounds like opportunistic profiteering to me-and is especially nauseating during a pandemic when folk are fearful and easily separated from their cash.
 
This is the point where I extol the virtues of UHC whereby all our testing is carried out free of charge. This sounds like opportunistic profiteering to me-and is especially nauseating during a pandemic when folk are fearful and easily separated from their cash.
This is why we as a society must wake up and GET RID OF ALL THOSE 1980's GREED IS GOOD groomed Savage Out Of Public Care and any other Executive Levels that Deal with Critical and Beneficial Services Needs of American People.

Hopefully, this Pandemic wakes up the sleeping and passive minded people who are lackadaisical in how they think, who bow down any time someone with a business suit and tie speaks.

(People need to read this and understand it)
The Shellacking of American Working Class of Poor Whites, Women and Minorities have taken place since the Era of Reagan's Big Right Wing "Pump The Money To The Wealthy" games which continue to this day to damage America!!!
He took money from Community Colleges and State Universities, because he did not want Poor Whites, Women and Minorities Gaining The Higher Level of Education, because he knew they would be awakened to the game the Wealthy have done to the masses for Generations. Based on Reagans agenda, they made it difficult and costly for the average American to get and become educated, and if they did manage to get in, the design was to strap them with enough debt that they'd be handicapped for the next 25 yrs, which means they would submit to being contained, just to pay that debt.. So, it was a way to diminish the threat of the massed becoming educated.

__________________________________________________​

If we can ever get Right Winger to WAKE UP and Get off the kick of embracing White Supremacist, White Nationalist and Other Race Hate Groups, and realize those are nothing more than the Foot Soldier, who are protecting the Autocratic Plutocracy of The Wealthy. They are nothing more than the make up what composed the Confederate Armies. Nothing More!!! The sooner the average Poor White, Working Poor White People realize it, and learn how to come together with Women and Minorities... The sooner we can fix America to Serve American Citizens with Respect and Dignity, and Economic Equity and Fair Plan in our society.
As long as these people buy into the continual drama and attack game of Republicanism... they wreak havoc.

Look at current day Republican, THEY HAVE and CONTINUE TO ATTACKED ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that is put on the table to help America, American Cities, American Community and The everyday day people of this society.
 
This is why we as a society must wake up and GET RID OF ALL THOSE 1980's GREED IS GOOD groomed Savage Out Of Public Care and any other Executive Levels that Deal with Critical and Beneficial Services Needs of American People.

Hopefully, this Pandemic wakes up the sleeping and passive minded people who are lackadaisical in how they think, and bow down any time someone with a business suit and tie speaks.

(People need to read this and understand it)
The Shellacking of American Working Class of Poor Whites, Women and Minorities have taken place since the Era of Reagan's Big Right Wing "Pump The Money To The Wealthy" games which continue to this day to damage America!!!
He took money from Community Colleges and State Universities, because he did not want Poor Whites, Women and Minorities Gaining The Higher Level of Education, because he knew they would be awakened to the game the Wealthy have done to the masses for Generations. Based on Reagans agenda, they made it difficult and costly for the average American to get and educated, and if they did manage to get in, the design was to strap them with enough debt that they'd be handicapped for the next 25 yrs, which means they would submit to being contained, just to pay that debt.. So, it was a way to diminish the threat of the massed becoming educated.

__________________________________________________​

If we can ever get Right Winger to WAKE UP and Get off the kick of embracing White Supremacist, White Nationalist and Other Race Hate Groups, and realize those are nothing more than the Foot Soldier, who are protecting the Autocratic Plutocracy of The Wealthy. They are nothing more than the make up what composed the Confederate Armies. Nothing More!!! The sooner the average Poor White, Working Poor White People realize it, and learn how to come together with Women and Minorities... The sooner we can fix America to Serve American Citizens with Respect and Dignity, and Economic Equity and Fair Plan in our society.
As long as these people buy into the continual drama and attack game of Republicanism... they wreak havoc.

Look at current day Republican, THEY HAVE and CONTINUE TO ATTACKED ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that is put on the table to help America, American Cities, American Community and The everyday day people of this society.
Yes it's a lockstep, knee-jerk absolute opposition by republicans to anything good the 'other' lot might be doing for Americans-and just because it's the 'other' lot. Isn't adversarial politics fun?
 

Reagan was a S.O.B. !!! he caused and led to high interest rates, again, a means to ensure that if people got from under the debt of over priced university, and tried to buy a home, they'd be under another debt load for the next 30 yrs. That means, by the time they get from under that debt they would be 60-65- and the threat would be minimized.

That's why we have so many radicals old people today, because they never stopped to figure out how and what happen to their lives and why. They were fed Reagan Created Right Wing Media to keep them fed with "Agitations" built on Fictions, wrapped in Belligerence and Race, Gender and Ethnicity Bias... to keep them occupied, so they would never open their eyes and see the real truths.

Black people have been trying to awaken them for Decades upon Decades, but the more we try, the harder Right Wing Media engages to feed these right wing groomed white people, more of the agitations of drama to go out and attack something, attack anything, and attack anyone, and when there is no one to attack, to attack each others. It's time they wake up... One does not need a University Degree to Realized, when they are being played, hoodwinked and taught to self defeat anything that will help them and attack anyone who tries to help them wake up.

White people have been taught for too long to blame minorities, when the only minority that is to be and should be blamed is the 1% who feed off the masses.

I've seen some of the dumbest greed driven imbeciles in high position, because they came from well to do backgrounds, and they always have a twisted and flawed sense of logics, that puts greed motivations ahead of anything and everything.
It's time working poor and poor white people "wake up".... stop falling for the same game that made your ancestry as poor and destitute as you are today, where you live in perpetual debt your entire life, unable to get quality medical care or quality food, and when you get old, you get the worst of care, because these "greed monsters own and operate the senior care facilities".
These places should have never been in Private Hands, it should have been and should be Run and Operated by Social Security and Medicare Administration!!! They are the one's paying, then they should be the ones Operating Senior Care and Rehabilitation Facilities.

HUD, has spent billions helping young people train in medical fields and nursing techniques, so... there is ABSOLUTELY, no reason these facilities should be run by (Private For Profit Goon Squad).

Medicare is not going to charge itself $80 for a damn aspirin, nor does it need to pay a greed % to these savage profiteers who prey on older people who need these services. We'd save $100's of Billion a Year, if these facilities were ran by Social Security and Medicare, and the medical staff is acquired directed from HUD sponsored programs that already exist. This means, every State will have someone appointed to oversee and mandate that its only staffed with people who are committed to public services. anything it buys is bought at Government Contract Pricing, which means the cost of everything would be reduced by the volume buying Government Contract gets for Bulk Purchases.


(THINK PEOPLE, and We can make things better, because its a given fact if you keep living, you will get old... and you will need care) !!! Wake Up NOW!!!
 
Yes it's a lockstep, knee-jerk absolute opposition by republicans to anything good the 'other' lot might be doing for Americans-and just because it's the 'other' lot. Isn't adversarial politics fun?
No... its not fun... it damages America and enriches the Savages... at the expense of Nation and People. IF Right Wingers get off this attack everything agenda, they would then learn more.. Most don't wake up, till age hits their asses, and they run into the walls they created, and find the services they need are confounded and set up to make it difficult for them to navigate, if they can manage to do so. This is the kind of shit that Republicans creates, because it does not give a damn about people. Not even the working age people, because they see people as "disposable" self replicating replacements, when they wear one out, dump them and go get another. They want them to be dumb as ****!!! so they will accept being screwed over and praise the goons who set them up for the screwing.

They are like the poor farmer who goes to the merchant, and does not have enough money, so the merchant doubles the prices of goods and then tell him he will let him have it on credit, by the time the debt is paid off, he's paid 4 times what it cost, and now must repeat the cycle, because he has nothing left to buy next years farm supplies. ... he walks out thinking the merchant is his friend. he rushes over and tell his others, friends how good a man the merchant is... and they all line up to get screwed in a repeating cycles. The Merchant is part owner of the Bank, and when the crops don't come in, the Merchant Forecloses, takes the property, and lease it back to the farmer as a sharecropper, and the cycles continues... The farmers has been and continues to be sucker played, and all the while think the Merchant and Banker is his friend.
That's the dumb shit that these Right Winger fight to remain being stuck within, and then try to blame everything else because they submitted themselves to this insanity. This is followed by gerrymandering them into containment zones, to keep the Merchant and Bankers Son's in Political Office... so the Screwing Can Continue.
 
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'It Felt Like Deception': An Elite NYC Hospital Charges Huge COVID Test Fees

State-run testing sites in New York do not charge patients or collect health insurance information for the COVID nasal swab tests. A study published last year found that a swab test at a hospital can run from $20 to $850. Some independent laboratories have charged more, billing $2,315.

The Lenox Hill Greenwich Village center bills $671 for its coronavirus test, six times what major labs such as LabCorp and Quest charge. The rest of the price discrepancy comes from the emergency room fees.

Sarah Nathan was not looking for emergency-level care when she was tested at Lenox Hill Greenwich Village. She just needed a test to return to her job as a nursery schoolteacher.

The bill for her visit came to $3,194, which her insurance negotiated down to $2,084. She recalls asking a front desk representative whether she would be billed for an emergency room visit. She said she was told she would not be.

Nathan worries about the impact these high fees could have on her premiums.

end quote

The best scenario for America is get these overly self delusional priviledged minded people out of determining medical billing cost,
Bring in "Diversity" and don't get it from any of the Ivy league schools. Get people who go to colleges that know what the average Americans life truely is and the reality economics of the average American.

It's time America wake up, and stop submitting to these people who grow up wealthy with these promised jobs, with these highly overly compensated position, which they think they are entitled to because they came from wealth.

Get people from the many colleges across the nation who came from everyday working families, who know how much it takes to earn a dollar, and how honest that work must be. When we realize how to stop falling into to the "pay the wealthy more just because they came from wealth"... Then we can get fair pricing equity and stop all the stupid rip off fee and exaggerated cost that is being thrust upon society.


Then; the exaggerated and excessive fees and cost will drop dramatically.

ACA could have put a stop to this madness of excessive fees and exaggerated charges a decade ago, if people had paid attention and actually read and understood the plan and design.
It's time for people to stop being led by "blind and willful ignorance" and being fleeced in the process.

At some point people will be forced to wake up and realize Republicanism is a Detriment To The General Society of Working People and This Nation, and the Equity of Peoples Lives, Community and Services.

Didn't she CHOOSE that particular hospital and didn't she exercise her freedom of choice when she did? Didn't she CHOOSE NOT to actually read the billing schedule and the terms of service at that particular hospital and didn't she exercise her freedom of choice when she did? Isn't EVERYONE free to charge whatever they feel like charging for testing? Isn't EVERYONE free to exercise their freedom of choice and CHOOSE NOT to get tested by a particular test provider if they don't like the payment options?

Why are you so opposed to freedom of choice?

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