US: Hospitals Get Paid $13K to List Patients as COVID-19 and $39K to Put Them on a Ventilator

US: Hospitals Get Paid $13K to List Patients as COVID-19 and $39K to Put Them on a Ventilator
"...This was after Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, told a local station he received a 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a COVID-19 diagnosis without a lab test to confirm the patient actually had the virus.

Dr. Jensen also disclosed that hospitals are paid more if they list patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis.
And hospitals get paid THREE TIMES AS MUCH if the patient then goes on a ventilator.

Senator Dr. Scott Jensen: Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. 
If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much...
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