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Content: false positives and negatives; and main costs are incurred by follow-up testing to the pulse oximetry screening. COSTS
Many hospitals already have pulse oximetry machines and the only additional cost is for use of the probe which is about $1 per reusable probe, or $7 to $8 for a single-use probe, according to the Children's National Medical Center. New Jersey (see below) estimates a cost of $10 per screening. A screening may be repeated if test results show the blood is lacking oxygen, and then more expensive ultrasounds or echocardiograms would be performed. Nursing time required to do pulse oximetry testing on newborns averages about three minutes per baby. Some critics of mandatory pulse oximetry screening raise the issue of the added cost of echocardiography in false-positive cases. FEDERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
Requiring pulse oximetry screening for newborns has been a state level issue for several years with proposals to have it included with other mandatory screenings for newborns. In October 2010, the Department HHS Advisory Committee on Heritable Diseases in Newborns and Children made a recommendation to add CHD to the uniform screening panel. It stated that “although there are recognizable evidence gaps, there are compelling reasons for recommending newborns for CHD.”