
In the rush to test Connecticut nursing home residents and staff for COVID-19, the state Department of Public Health did not track whether testing providers, who received millions of dollars in public funding during the pandemic, were also collecting insurance payments that would need to be remitted to the state, according to a recently released audit.
That oversight may have resulted in testing providers being compensated twice — by the state and by insurance companies — for the samples they collected at the long-term care facilities, according to the state Auditors of Public Accounts.
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