9 in 10 put on a ventilator DIE...https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-ventilator-deaths-new-york.html On Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 12:11:04 PM EDT, Nenah Sylver <nenah12egro...@cox.net> wrote: <!--#yiv3085787461 _filtered {} _filtered {} _filtered {}#yiv3085787461 #yiv3085787461 p.yiv3085787461MsoNormal, #yiv3085787461 li.yiv3085787461MsoNormal, #yiv3085787461 div.yiv3085787461MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;}#yiv3085787461 span.yiv3085787461EmailStyle17 {font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none none;}#yiv3085787461 .yiv3085787461MsoChpDefault {font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;} _filtered {}#yiv3085787461 div.yiv3085787461WordSection1 {}--> Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators April 24, 2020, USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals...
Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by "The Ingraham Angle" host Laura Ingraham on April 8 on Fox News and claimed hospitals get paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having COVID-19 and get three times as much money if they need a ventilator. On April 19, he doubled down on his assertion via video on his Facebook page. Jensen said, "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. 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." He noted that some states ... specifically New York, list all presumed cases, which is allowed under guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of mid-April and which will result in a larger payout. The coronavirus relief legislation created a 20% premium, or add-on, for COVID-19 Medicare patients. 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 ... 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.
