[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hospitals get $13,000 for a CCP virus diagnosis, and $39,000 when they put somebody on a ventilator.

What could possibly go wrong?

[palmer]

$39,000 when they put somebody on a ventilator.

I gotta say, I cannot imagine what it must be like to be ambulatory (able to walk into the hospital under your own power) and have that done to you improperly. To be intubated you need to have essentially stopped breathing and be unconscious. I'm pretty sure hospitals ran out of anesthesiologists who are properly trained to administer the drugs, two of three drugs use for executions in some states.

Too little sedative and/or muscle paralyzer and the patient will fight against the ventilator with the result of a drop in oxygen levels and more fighting to breathe. There were undoubtedly conscious patients who died a rather brutal death, possibly unnecessarily.

[ronnie raygun]

Here is the rat state re opening circle jerk: the hospital administrators, beholden to the health commissioner send their daily results to the state health commissioner that is appointed by the governor, three ways to skew the numbers. The rat cities do it with the crime statistics all the time

[brookwood]

A patient on a ventilator must be put in a medically-induced coma.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249859/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15865552
“..ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are costly complications for the hospitalized patient”
“CONCLUSIONS:
Ventilator-associated pneumonia not only leads to a significant increase in ventilator days and ICU length of stay, but adds substantially to hospital costs. In our ICU, an episode of VAP costs $57,000 per occurrence.”

The hospitals never make money on medicare patients, because medicare pays a small fraction of the actual cost of the services. The hospital has to jack up charges to everyone else to make up for the fact they are being shafted by the government who forces them to treat medicare patients at a loss.