Haven’t they also created a “perverse incentive” to Covid diagnoses? Probable or Presumed Covid infection? 6K per positive Covid diagnosis and 36K per Covid death?
No one I know will confirm the $$ aspect of this for the hospitals. I can tell you think if it were so, hospitals would NOT be closing up all over the country the way that they are. And they are, some of them are even closing forever.
Elective surgeries are where the money’s at and with the states closing those down, money is being lost left and right.