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Locally, within 20 miles of where i live, there are 2 places that will accept the general public. An UrgentCare type place & a Walmart. Walmart uses Quest & the other LabCorp.
From their websites:
So i guess you need a doctor order for this. Insurance may or may not pay?
Sweet, more info from Quest:
The MedExpress site says you have to pay the co-pay at least. Insurance may or may not pay?
There is one other place to get tested here, thru the hospital, but you must have a doctor order. It says right on their website tests are $199. It's had that price since spring.
I guess what i need to do to really find out is get a hold of my insurance & see what is actually covered, how many times a person can get tested & be covered, is a doctor order required to be covered, what/who is in-network & who's not, etc.
Let me say this again, 2 co-workers were told by the health dept.(PA and/or County) to quarantine & they would not be tested unless the people they came in contact with got their tests results back as positive.
If there's an abundance of tests that seems counter productive.
Locally, within 20 miles of where i live, there are 2 places that will accept the general public. An UrgentCare type place & a Walmart. Walmart uses Quest & the other LabCorp.
From their websites:
So i guess you need a doctor order for this. Insurance may or may not pay?
Sweet, more info from Quest:
The MedExpress site says you have to pay the co-pay at least. Insurance may or may not pay?
There is one other place to get tested here, thru the hospital, but you must have a doctor order. It says right on their website tests are $199. It's had that price since spring.
I guess what i need to do to really find out is get a hold of my insurance & see what is actually covered, how many times a person can get tested & be covered, is a doctor order required to be covered, what/who is in-network & who's not, etc.
Let me say this again, 2 co-workers were told by the health dept.(PA and/or County) to quarantine & they would not be tested unless the people they came in contact with got their tests results back as positive.
If there's an abundance of tests that seems counter productive.
This is what the HHS site says for PA:
Pennsylvania | No-cost testing is available at local health centers and select pharmacies:
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Looks like it would have to be a Walmart that uses eTrueNorth and not Quest or MedExpress or anyone else for that matter. Here in Ohio, Walmart isn't even listed at all on the HHS site, and for the local independent pharmacies it lists both eTrueNorth and Health Mart (which is nice as I have a Health Mart-partnered pharmacy nearby, but the Health Mart website doesn't specify Covid testing).
Use those links provided to locate places near you that are specifically mentioned. A bummer though is while it has a link for Walmart, it takes you to: https://www.doineedacovid19test.com/ which appears to be run by eTrueNorth. And yet under PA it doesn't list any Walmarts. I can't say what that means in the end, perhaps some partnerships ended/changed over the course of the year and updates on the site have been slow.