HUGE! MN Senator and Doctor: Hospitals Get Paid More to List Patients as COVID-19 and Three Times as Much if the Patient Goes on Ventilator (VIDEO)

Gatewaypundit ^ | April 9 2020 | Jim Hoft

[SmokingJoe]

Last night Senator Dr. Scott Jensen from Minnesota went on The Ingraham Angle to discuss how the AMA is encouraging American doctors to overcount coronavirus deaths across the US.

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. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.

Via Ingraham Angle:

[SmokingJoe]

Chuckle!
I see what you did there.
Can you try again?

[kvanbrunt2]

The Blue-State governors seem to be acting in unison.>>> Cuomo gave the call weeks ago for the states to act together. “This won’t work unless NJ, PA etc all work toether.” something to that effect.

[Mom MD]

I have received no such coaching. And let’s get real here. If a patient goes on a ventilator they are in the ICU often for an extended period of time. Their care is exponentially more expensive than if they are not on a ventilator. Covid patients are in isolation and are more difficult to care for just from that standpoint. I’m sorry but this article is BS

[ronnie raygun]

Sounds more and more like a planned epidemic doesn’t it?
They have to keep those plates spinning till November or until shitt gathers up another scumbag committee to go after trump for mishandling the pandemic

[markman46]

OK now hear this, medicare pays on a diagnosis code basis for hospitalizations period, yes there is a lot of medicare fraud.
someone is telling a BS story or inflating COVID-19 numbers in Minnesota

[SmokingJoe]

What planet are you living on?
Doctors have been routinely recommending more expensive treatments to collect more money from Medicare for decades. Of course there is Medicare fraud, and its going to be much much worse with this coronavirus hoax., when they are in effect offering a bounty for every new coronavirus case you bring. This is beyond contemptible.