Flashback: Minnesota Doctor Blasts ‘Ridiculous’ CDC Coronavirus Death Count Guidelines
“Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000; three times as much. Nobody can tell me, after 35 years in the world of medicine, that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.”
The fraud has broken down in even the most mainstream sources.
Via: USA Today:
The claim: Hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19, and on ventilators
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Our ruling: True
We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE.