Anonymous ID: 58d3e4 April 19, 2020, 11:52 a.m. No.8852572   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2659 >>2738 >>2938 >>3087 >>3112

(THEY WANT EVERYONE TESTED @ $100 per test. THEY ARE PROFITING ON THE TESTS.)

 

CMS Increases Medicare Payment for High-Production Coronavirus Lab Tests

Apr 15, 2020 

 

Billing & payments

 

Under President Trump’s leadership, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced Medicare will nearly double payment for certain lab tests that use high-throughput technologies to rapidly diagnose large numbers of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. This is another action the Trump Administration is taking to rapidly expand COVID-19 testing, particularly for those with Medicare, including nursing home residents who are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19 and most affected by COVID-19 outbreaks across the country.

 

“CMS has made a critical move to ensure adequate reimbursement for advanced technology that can process a large volume of COVID-19 tests rapidly and accurately,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. “This is an absolute game-changer for nursing homes, where risk of Coronavirus infection is high among our most vulnerable.”

 

Medicare will pay the higher payment of $100 for COVID-19 clinical diagnostic lab tests making use of high-throughput technologies developed by the private sector that allow for increased testing capacity, faster results, and more effective means of combating the spread of the virus. High-throughput lab tests can process more than two hundred specimens a day using highly sophisticated equipment that requires specially trained technicians and more time-intensive processes to assure quality. Medicare will pay laboratories for the tests at $100 effective April 14, 2020, through the duration of the COVID-19 national emergency.

 

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-increases-medicare-payment-high-production-coronavirus-lab-tests-0

Anonymous ID: 58d3e4 April 19, 2020, 12:08 p.m. No.8852754   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2807 >>2855

Schumer just said on Fox that we should pursue "contact tracing" as well as tests. So, Schumer wants every friend, family member and acquaintance tracked and documented if you happen to unfortunately come under the focus of the medical care system. This doesn't seem very Constitutional, does it?