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Originally Posted by mamamia54
I was told hospitals that list covid as cause of death receive $13,000 from Medicare for each death. Good reason to just say covid for everyone even if they had a heart attack. The only exception to the rule is nursing homes who will say everything else but covid. Afraid we will know how many are really dying in them. So when they die of covid the death certificate attributes it to a heart attack. This is the case with my friends mom.
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That sounds like the hospitals are rewarded for each Covid patient who dies, and not for the ones they save? That’s a strange way to fund hospitals. Where do they do that?