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SANTA FE, N.M. New Mexico’s top insurance regulator is putting medical providers on notice that people cannot be charged for coronavirus testing after reports that residents have been required to pay for coronavirus rapid-result tests.
Insurance Superintendent Russell Toal said Wednesday that his office is preparing an administrative bulletin to ensure testing costs are not passed directly on to consumers as state health officials push for robust testing to track infection rates and new strains of COVID-19.
Toal says the Office of the Superintendent of Insurance has received reports of people being charged in excess of $100 for testing services that should be free.
Optum says it erroneously billed 249 people for COVID-19 vaccine
Optum accidentally charged 249 Medicare Advantage enrollees for the COVID-19 vaccine.
The New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance Office said that the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary accidentally charged enrollees $34 for the administration of the vaccine and $0.05 for the vaccine itself. An Optum spokesperson said the company is contacting anyone who was sent an invoice to tell them that they do not need to pay any fees associated with the coronavirus vaccine, and all members who have already paid the bill will receive a refund.
In a letter to the state on Jan. 29, Tim Godfrey, Optum s vice president of operations, said the error came from Change Healthcare, a revenue cycle management company that parent UnitedHealth Group acquired for $13 billion in January. Godfrey wrote that patients with and without insurance were charged for the vaccine. He said systems at Change Healthcare had been updated to reflect that the sho