We’ve had discussions in here about classifications of CIVID deaths possibly being inflated. Some in here don’t believe it. But consider this: for every COVID patient a hospital takes in and treats, the hospital receives $13,000. For every COVID patient that ends up on a ventilator, the hospital receives $39,000. Would it not be in the best interest of the hospital to liberally classify patients as COVID patients to get more funding? Do you really think that hospitals aren’t pressuring doctors to classify as many treatments and deaths as COVID related? Especially in a time when hospitals are going bankrupt and laying off employees because they are losing so much revenue by not performing elective surgeries? If you don’t think hospitals are watching out for their own bottom line, you’re naive.
Hospitals are paid more for Medicare patients with COVID-19, but a senator who first said that says he doesn't think the system is being gamed.
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