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Insurance companies being charged admin fee for COVID-19 vaccine

If you have signed up to get the COVID vaccine, you may have been asked to provide your insurance information even though you are not paying for the shot.

News Center 7′s Kayla Courvell talked to Noah Stuby from Greene County Public Health to find out why people are being asked for insurance information.

Stuby said, “It’s optional.”

As deputy health commissioner in Greene County, Stuby said when signing up to get the vaccine, providing your insurance information is not required.

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While the federal government is paying for the vaccine, entities like public health departments aren’t getting any money for administering the shots.

“Since we’re not receiving any direct funding to put these vaccination clinics on, in the time energy, manpower and effort and cost that go into them, it’s a way for us to recoup some costs instead of just being out all of those resources,” Stuby said,

The insurance information that is provided is used to charge insurance companies what’s called an administrative fee that can help offset some of the costs of the clinics that health departments are paying for.

Stuby said the recipient of the vaccine will “never see a charge for it. It will never show up as a copay or anything,”

He also said because it’s optional or you do not have insurance, it’s not going to stop someone from getting the vaccine.

Kayla Courvell

Kayla Courvell

I was born and raised in a small town just north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and decided as a child I was going to be a news reporter.

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