Dr. Scott Jensen, a senator and physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by "The Ingraham Angle"
host Laura Ingraham on April 8 on Fox News and claimed hospitals get
paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having COVID-19 and get
three times as much money if they end up needing a ventilator.
While his claim originated during an interview on Fox News, it was published on April 9 by The Spectator, a conservative publication and syndicator. WorldNetDaily shared it on April 10 and, according to Snopes, a related meme was shared on social media in mid-April.
"How
can anyone not believe that increasing the number of COVID-19 deaths
may create an avenue for states to receive a larger portion of federal
dollars. Already some states are complaining that they are not getting
enough of the CARES Act dollars because they are having significantly
more proportional COVID-19 deaths."
More @ USA Today
I'm going for a walk in the woods now. A few questions:
ReplyDeleteI wonder if a police copter might see me and have a platoon surround and arrest me for not social-distancing in my house?
If I don't pay the fine will they put me in prison?
Will they then let me out of prison because of social-distancing?
Is our Republic FUBAR?
Do Americans have the fortitude to peacefully fix DC?
Or if it cannot be fixed peacefully, the fortitude to 'refresh the tree'?
God Bless our Republic. I think it really needs it.
Is our Republic FUBAR?
DeleteLong since and if we don't succeed this time, it's over I believe.
I suspect that a Covid 19 DX does increase reimbursement and therefore the incentive for hospitals to state a patient has the virus....even if they don't know that for sure. As for the increase in reimbursement for intubation and ventilation I have no doubt that the cost for doing so is reimbursed at a high rate because the costs involved in caring for such patients are enormous compared to patients NOT being ventilated. NO ethical doctor will EVER intubate a patient unless and until all other means of care are ineffective. This means that patients do not end up on ventilators until they are already at deaths door step because the survival rate for such patients is and has always been abysmal. Roughly 80% of patients intubated for acute respiratory distress succumb. But compare that to patients in acuted respiratory distress who are NOT intubated and that 20% survival rate isn't bad because almost EVERYONE who is in such distress they can't breath on their own and must be intubated DIES is they don't get intubated. This virus hasn't altered that reality.....just added one more pathogen that can cause acute respiratory distress.
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DeleteThanks for the information and I had heard even 90% but either one is about it