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(New York, NY) — New York and New Jersey’s largest urgent care provider is paying up for wrongfully charging for COVID-19 tests.
The New York State Attorney General’s Office says CityMD wrongfully billed more than 300-thousand-patients for a coronavirus test at the height of the pandemic. That means CityMD is refunding nearly seven million dollars to patients and cancelling another seven million dollars in debt.
The Attorney General says the company issued the bills from March 2020 to October 2022, even though state and federal laws prohibited health plans from charging patients for necessary testing. CityMD, which has 140 locations across the state, will also pay another 95-thousand-dollars in penalties to New York.
