Hospitals get paid big bucks to make these claims.
Someone told me it’s in the 10’s of thousands $$ for each diagnosis
CodeToad :" Hospitals get paid big bucks to make these claims."
Follow the money !
Hospitals get paid more for covid-19 deaths than standard deaths,
because it is implied that there are more staff personnel and medical supplies used before a patient succumbs.
Federal Medicare pays a $13,000 bonus if the hospital admins paperwork says that covid was involved.... If the paperwork says that a ventilator was involved the hospital admins. get an extra $39,000..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3898649/posts?page=92#92
Hospitals get paid big bucks to make these claims.
See "Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators," in which USA Today concludes : Our ruling: True We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE. Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it's considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases.
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