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Hoyt

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8. It's not just the Cares Act. Medicare has been paying based upon diagnosis since the early 1980s.

Reply to Shermann (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 10:41 AM

Oct 2020

Private payers a decade or so later.

CV19 costs a hospital more, so they get paid more vs. severe influenza, pneumonia, etc. So, he's right that hospitals get more. Where he's wrong is that hospitals are claiming the patient has CV19, even if they don't. That's not true.

Probably doesn't make much difference as trump need to go in any event.

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American Medical Association rips Trump's claim that doctors inflating COVID numbers [View all] left-of-center2012 Oct 2020 OP

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How, exactly, does a doctor make more money if the patient dies??? ret5hd Oct 2020 #3

Projection? SheltieLover Oct 2020 #4

It's the Underpants Gnomes Business Plan for Coronavirus Shermann Oct 2020 #6

trump is right that hospitals get more money for CV19 than say viral pneumonia. But Hoyt Oct 2020 #5

Even if Trump were correct Shermann Oct 2020 #7

It's not just the Cares Act. Medicare has been paying based upon diagnosis since the early 1980s. Hoyt Oct 2020 #8