{"id":325231,"date":"2026-03-02T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325231\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:49:13","slug":"medical-card-holders-refunded-after-being-wrongly-charged-for-blood-tests-by-their-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/325231\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical card holders refunded after being wrongly charged for blood tests by their GPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"If the patient's GP deems a blood test to be clinically necessary, the test falls within the scope of service. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4964cd17-ce06-4f0b-828f-eff6d6838dca.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">If the patient&#8217;s GP deems a blood test to be clinically necessary, the test falls within the scope of service. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A number of medical card holders who complained to the HSE that they were charged by their GP for blood tests they believed should have been free have been refunded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In another case, a GP had the amounts charged for blood tests for medical card holders deducted from their HSE payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the patient&#8217;s GP deems a blood test to be clinically necessary, the test falls within the scope&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4593,2120,61,60],"class_list":["post-325231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}