Hospitals are exploring a way to pay for uninsured Covid-19 care
A federal program that paid for Covid-19 care for uninsured patients ended in April, and now some hospitals may turn to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cover the cost of tests, treatments and vaccines for the uninsured. There may be a backdoor way for hospitals to get paid for uninsured Covid-19 care
WASHINGTON — The federal health department shut down a program that paid hospitals and clinics for caring for uninsured Covid-19 patients, but some hospitals are now eyeing a backdoor option to get those costs paid for. Throughout much of the pandemic, the costs of testing, vaccinating, and treating uninsured patients were mostly funneled to a multi-billion-dollar program run by the Health Resources and Services Administration, but that program ran out of money and shut down in April.
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