I believe the reward was in fact $39k ea. You disagree?
That is a fair question. Some info with sources.
"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. This higher allocation of funds has been made possible under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act through a Medicare 20% add-on to its regular payment for COVID-19 patients, as verified by USA TODAY through the American Hospital Association Special Bulletin on the topic."
"Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators," USAToday 27 April 2020.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/
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"Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for—if they're Medicare—typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000,” said Jensen, whose claim was fact-checked by USA Today. “But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."
"Physicians Say Hospitals Are Pressuring ER Docs to List COVID-19 on Death Certificates. Here's Why," FEE, 29 April 2020.
Source: https://fee.org/articles/physicians-say-hospitals-are-pressuring-er-docs-to-list-covid-19-on-death-certificates-here-s-why/
While the figure may be different for different situations, there is no doubt that hospitals had significant additional Medicare compensation for their remdesivir/ventilator care, which resulted in the majority of the cases in death.
This within the larger, 27 month long "pandemic" with a sourced and calculated mortality rate of "less than one-tenth of one percent globally."
US CDC-protocol Covid "care" has been among the worst in the world, which is easily proven through all the official sources. Unless one does not accept the official sources, of course.
Vented patients hospital got $39K. I retired from Hospital reimbursement and my boss told me what the fee was during COVID.