You can say that again.
You never used to get paid a bonus if someone got sick enough to be treated at the hospital.
The goal used to be to treat people so they would not get sick enough to hospitalize. That is not the case this time is it.
Instead they do not get treated until they are hospitalized.
Think about that.
Treatments are NOT being given.
Even though they are available.
so, someone gets a deadly contagious virus that requires tens of thousands of dollars of extra resources but the hospitals shouldn't receive a dime more in the already abysmally inadequate medicare reimbursement?
The goal used to be to treat people so they would not get sick enough to hospitalize.
There's no treatment for a virus. You either beat it or it beats you. If it seems like it's beating you, you come back in to the ER and we admit you so we can help you beat it and beating this virus is expensive. I have seen people adnitted into the ICU for weeks on a ventilator and a rotoprone with multiple physicians and 1 on 1 nursing or 1 on 2 nursing. daily lab work and radiology. It can be an expensive battle. After 2 weeks inh the ICU, we're losing money. We're not getting rich off this.