Is the Trump administration trying to better control the statistical narrative of covid-19 by forcing hospitals to abide by reporting rules to the HHS rather than the CDC?
By reporting to HHS, any hospital who over-stated COVID or can’t document receiving payment for COVID related patients will have to return the money when the audit is done in a year. I have 20 yrs experience dealing with Medicaid and Medicare auditors and it’s not a cake walk. There will be some hospitals with fraudulent billing and they will have to pay back HHS.