This company has no real interest in the public health of Minnesotans; rather, this has merely been a money-making exploit riddled with bad business practices and questionable ethics from day one.
As an example, the company was changing the medical coding on the back end to bill insurances at a higher “patient office visit” rate for each test run, despite the fact that the testers were not being seen at these mass testing sites individually for traditional patient visits. In fact, most had very little interaction with a licensed medical provider while on site, and even when they did, it was nowhere near enough to meet the criteria to bill at such a level.
The company also tried to bill insurance for vaccine visits as medical provider visits, even though the visit and documentation was completed by nurses, and should have been billed at the according (less lucrative) level.
This, of course, was kept from the providers whose names and medical licenses were being used to make these inflated, fraudulent insurance claims. Even when management was confronted with questions as to what was going on with the billing practices, blatant lies were told, and some providers were even told it wasn't their right to ask in the first place.
