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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pineapplelover@lemm.ee to c/general@lemmy.world

Background: I was in high school (public) and our school just got back from quarantine, and had everybody to take a mandatory covid test every week. Our teachers rounded us up and these people swabbed and tested us. We didn't sign anything, we didn't ask for this, we were just told to line up and do it.

Now that was last school year, just this week I received a bill from MEDLAB2020 sent to my home with my full name and my insurance information telling me to pay $3700 for that year of weekly COVID tests. Now, I thought this was free, being in a public school and not having signed or agreeing to anything. So I guess I'll just call the school up the following Monday or something because I'm not paying this.

I did find a post with pretty much the same situation https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/10alt16/received_a_billing_email_from_medlab2020/

Edit: I previously made a post in c/california but wanted to post here to see if I would get more traction. Yes, I live in the US of A if it wasn't obvious.

https://lemm.ee/post/1239037

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[-] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

What year was it done? Up until recently it was federally required for all insurance to cover COVID tests, including rapid tests with NO copay.

In California insurance is still required to cover all COVID testing with no copay. But this doesn't apply if it is a private plan through your job for example.

Back in 2021 I had a urgent care clinic pull this shit, fighting to get me to pay $300 for a test and refusing me to give an itemized bill. That did not end well for them after I called my insurance and told them about that. Ended up paying them $0 and my insurance paid them like $7 cause it was a rapid test. I had anthem back when that happened.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was done last year, 2022. I do have insurance so I'm not as worried, if this is legit, they would probably pay for it. However, this was a mandatory test on school campus and it was never brought up that they would bill us.

[-] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

They might just have the wrong insurance info or wrong birthday or something when they did the billing. It should be $0

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