Sarah Krouse
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133 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2018
last heard Aug 2020
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So from a company perspective, one of the arguments that executives have said to me is we're trying to get ahead of outbreaks.
We don't want to be in a situation where a lot of our employees end up getting sick, which then ends up being a bigger health care cost down the road, a loss of productivity.
We may need to shut down on the insurer side.
they often comply with what the federal or state governments say they are responsible for paying for.
So they may not want to be in a situation where they are paying for weekly or biweekly testing of hundreds or thousands of employees
if they don't have to, because they are also businesses managing their income and expenses.
So, you know, you're talking about this financial equation on both sides and trying to, well, you're talking about this financial equation on both sides.
Well, many of them comply with what the federal or state guidance is, though they have the latitude to go beyond that.
So if they're not required to cover testing in a given state or for a given type of worker, they may go ahead and do it anyway.
They may cover it just once a month and say,
Once a month is where the buck stops, or they may say once a month is all we're prepared to pay for.
So if you want to test the worker more than that, you'll have to pay for whatever goes beyond that regularity.
So there's a pretty wide variety in terms of how insurance companies are treating this.
This is a time when, in general, people have gone to the doctor less.
Insurers have had pretty hefty profits.
So it's sort of, again, to that financial push-pull.
Right now, some companies are saying, hey, insurers are in a really strong financial situation.
My workers are not going to the doctor.
They're not using their insurance the way they normally would, so please cover these costs.
However, to begin committing to paying for this long term on the insurance side could then sort of set a precedent for the future.
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