What the claims eluded to basically, and then were exaggerated as fact, is that if you have a basis of financially incentivising something, often it is taken advantage of.
The dollar amounts were basically correct and a bill was passed to fund the monies to medicare patients, and I read somewhere, the uninsured.
There were valid reports of patients tested for Covid, testing positive, hospitalised for other injury, but covid was listed as well. Did those make more money? We may never know the sum of it.
Are you saying they lied about yhe refridgerated trailers for temp morgues in NY?
OR am I going to have to do all the fuggin fact checking here?
Jimminy crickets!
"For less severe hospitalizations, we use the average Medicare payment for respiratory infections and inflammations with major comorbidities or complications in 2017, which was $13,297. For more severe hospitalizations, we use the average Medicare payment for a respiratory system diagnosis with ventilator support for greater than 96 hours, which was $40,218."
Questions were raised on cable news about whether hospitals have financial incentives to diagnose patients with COVID-19.
www.snopes.com
Q: Are hospitals inflating the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths so they can be paid more? A: Recent legislation pays hospitals higher Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients and treatment, but there is no evidence of fraudulent reporting. FULL QUESTION Are hospitals getting 13,000 per patient if...
www.factcheck.org
"It is true that a section of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (or the CARES Act) calls for higher compensation from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the care of patients with a primary or secondary diagnosis of COVID-19. Contrary to what the posts claim, however, the measure is found in Section 3710, not 4409, and the increase is 20%, not 15%. It appears that the content’s author confused the version of the bill that went through the Senate on March 21 ( here ) with the final House version ( here ), which became public law on March 27."
I find it so cute and endearing how much you trust your respective governments.