Title: MN Senator and Doctor: Hospitals Get Paid More to List Patients as COVID-19 and Three Times as Much if the Patient Goes on Ventilator Source:
Gateway Pundit URL Source:https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20 ... patient-goes-ventilator-video/ Published:Apr 9, 2020 Author:Jim Hoft Post Date:2020-04-10 05:36:06 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:1726 Comments:2
THIS IS HUGE!
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Last night Senator Dr. Scott Jensen from Minnesota went on The Ingraham Angle to discuss how the AMA is encouraging American doctors to overcount coronavirus deaths across the US.
This was after Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, told a local station he received a 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a COVID-19 diagnosis without a lab test to confirm the patient actually had the virus.
Dr. Jensen also disclosed that hospitals are paid more if they list patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis. And hospitals get paid THREE TIMES AS MUCH if the patient then goes on a ventilator.
Senator Dr. Scott Jensen: Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.
Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much.
"During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the average cost of a patient hospital stay was $11,000 compared to $8,500 during the 2008 influenza season, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality." -- modernhealthcare.com
ANY flu admission to a hospital is expensive. No need for hospitals to lie about it to the government and risk getting caught.