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Medicare pays hospitals $13,000 per COVID patient - $39,000 if on ventilator
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:46 am
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:46 am
Dr. Scott Jensen (on Laura Ingraham last night) said Medicare pays hospitals $13,000 per COVID patient - $39,000 if on ventilator.
So are hospitals getting these funds if the diagnosis is based on an assumption? If it is merely on assumption, then the abuses could easily get into the high hundreds of millions - if not into the billions.
No wonder there are so many empty beds on the ships, Javitts Center, and all other temporary hospitals.
Dr. Jensen's interview begins at 18:35
LINK
On YouTube - If you don't like links, the YouTube title is:
The Ingraham Angle 4/8/20 full
I'm informed that some of this video has been deleted.
Try this on (while it still remains up)
At about 53:07
LINK
So are hospitals getting these funds if the diagnosis is based on an assumption? If it is merely on assumption, then the abuses could easily get into the high hundreds of millions - if not into the billions.
No wonder there are so many empty beds on the ships, Javitts Center, and all other temporary hospitals.
Dr. Jensen's interview begins at 18:35
LINK
On YouTube - If you don't like links, the YouTube title is:
The Ingraham Angle 4/8/20 full
I'm informed that some of this video has been deleted.
Try this on (while it still remains up)
At about 53:07
LINK
This post was edited on 4/9/20 at 8:13 am
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Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:47 am to Buckeye Jeaux
cha ching
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:48 am to Buckeye Jeaux
So, yeah that dude that burned up in a fiery plane crash was a Covid victim.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:48 am to Buckeye Jeaux
No.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:50 am to LSUnation78
Yup
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:52 am to gthog61
at anyone thinking hospitals are doing well/liking this situation We are getting buttraped financially because of this
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:53 am to Buckeye Jeaux
Money printer go brrr
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:54 am to Buckeye Jeaux
Medicare pays more for amputations than they do for a bandaid. So by your logic does that incentive them in any way?
Republics can be the biggest penny pinchers for hospitals or welfare recipients. But for billions thrown at corporations like Boeing whose problems have zip to do with COVID-19, not so much.
Republics can be the biggest penny pinchers for hospitals or welfare recipients. But for billions thrown at corporations like Boeing whose problems have zip to do with COVID-19, not so much.
This post was edited on 4/9/20 at 7:57 am
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:54 am to Buckeye Jeaux
quote:
Dr. Scott Jensen (on Laura Ingraham last night) said Medicare pays hospitals $13,000 per COVID patient - $39,000 if on ventilator.
I understand that you probably work in some field unrelated to health care, but particularly in Emergency and Critical Care medicine the billing side of the house doesn't play a role in what ICD code you pick.
So don't try and apply whatever motivations exist in your line of work to medicine.
This post was edited on 4/9/20 at 7:56 am
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:55 am to lsupride87
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lsupride87
Since this is your line of work, please let OP know what Medicare reimbursement tables are for ventilation before the COVID outbreak. If a medicare patient walked into the hospital in February of 2019 needing a vent, what would medicare reimburse?
I just looked it up.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:57 am to lsupride87
quote:
at anyone thinking hospitals are doing well/liking this situation
We are getting buttraped financially because of this
That’s the point. The fedgov has added additional compensation for COVID claims. Hospitals are incentivized to pad those numbers, which increases the numbers reported to the media, which continually sends the masses into fear.
Creating a nearly endless feedback loop.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:59 am to Boatshoes
quote:
I understand that you probably work in some field unrelated to health care, but particularly in Emergency and Critical Care medicine the billing side of the house doesn't play a role in what ICD code you pick.
Tell that to Dr. Jensen. It is his name and reputation he has put on national television.
We are all anonymous keyboard warriors - you included.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:59 am to Boatshoes
Like I said in the other thread my grandad died of Coronavirus but it wasn’t listed as his cause of death. He had other issues. This whole narrative is bs.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:00 am to Golfer
quote:
That’s the point. The fedgov has added additional compensation for COVID claims. Hospitals are incentivized to pad those numbers, which increases the numbers reported to the media, which continually sends the masses into fear.
Creating a nearly endless feedback loop.
Hospitals are getting crushed financially, during this. They would need a shite-ton more COVID patients than they have, to make up for all the elective surgeries and procedures that ARE NOT doing now.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:02 am to greygoose
quote:
Hospitals are getting crushed financially, during this. They would need a shite-ton more COVID patients than they have, to make up for all the elective surgeries and procedures that ARE NOT doing now.
I know. They’re trying to make up revenue wherever they can.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:02 am to Buckeye Jeaux
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:03 am to Boatshoes
quote:
I understand that you probably work in some field unrelated to health care, but particularly in Emergency and Critical Care medicine the billing side of the house doesn't play a role in what ICD code you pick.
I do work in that setting and have for a long time.
You are being naive.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:05 am to greygoose
quote:sorry to hear this. But our nation's economy is being crushed by a shutdown based on extremely shaky data and projections.
Hospitals are getting crushed financially, during this.
Someone in government needs to put an immediate end to this practice of relying on assumptions for CRITICAL data
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:06 am to Golfer
quote:Are you familiar with the consequences of Medicare fraud?
That’s the point. The fedgov has added additional compensation for COVID claims. Hospitals are incentivized to pad those numbers, which increases the numbers reported to the media, which continually sends the masses into fear.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 8:08 am to LSUnation78
Yes
It's word for word in the published guidelines: "in lieu of a positive result, it is permissible to ASSUME corona when assigning codes on the death certificate"
It's word for word in the published guidelines: "in lieu of a positive result, it is permissible to ASSUME corona when assigning codes on the death certificate"
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