Posted on 04/28/2020 11:41:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Now we know why patients are being diagnosed with COVID-19 even if they haven't been tested, why the official cause of death for deceased patients is COVID-19 even if they weren't tested and/or if the cause of death was something else, and why countless patients are put on ventilators despite poor outcomes and less invasive options for certain patients.
According to a report at The Daily Wire, hospitals are reimbursed more for patients with a diagnosis code for COVID-19. And patients on ventilators bring in even more money. A lot more.
Hospitals get paid more money if a patient is coded for the novel coronavirus, even if they haven't been tested in some states, multiple fact-checking sites have confirmed…Hospitals get a 20% add-on for COVID-19-coded patients and roughly three times as much if such patients are placed on a ventilator.
In the beginning of April, physician and State Sen. Scott Jensen (R-MN) notified the public of the policy and later emphasized on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" that "anytime health care intersects with dollars, it gets awkward." [snip]
On Facebook, the Republican reiterated, "How can anyone not believe that increasing the number of COVID-19 deaths may create an avenue for states to receive a larger portion of federal dollars…"
"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," he added on April 19. "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."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
....if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000.”
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This ends up being an incentive to kill by ventilator.
this is evil and only incentivizes lying,
obstructing medical care, lying, and fits
the entire SARS_CoV-2 designed and paid for by whom??
patented by whom?? protected by whom??
treated by what which is obstructed by whom??
Note to the NSA: F’ing waterboard them all already.
Everyone needs to circulate this to at least 10 additional people.
So whatever number we have of a). patients, and b). dead patients, with Covid-19 as a common denominator is a number, quite literally, pulled out of the air. No one has the tiniest clue what the real number is. In fact, Covid-19 may be 1/10 or 1/100 as deadly as influenza.
I did and some will not be happy with me as they will think I am a lunatic! Whatever.........
With these kinds of assumptions feeding into the reports, I have absolutely zero confidence in any of the numbers out there. I am certain that if I got on my motorcycle right now and got wiped out by a soccer mom a mile from my house, I'd be listed as covid-19 death due to a "presumption" or assumption that I was infected.
But others will also circulate it, and word will get out.
So, good on you!
Btw, I do know of someone who has died WITH covid (not necessarily OF)— He was elderly & had health issues for awhile.
Incentive-19
I am sorry to hear this.
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