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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.
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It isn't for per
death, that is the approximate Medicare payment for
hospitalization for COVID patients. "There isn’t a Medicare diagnostic code specifically for COVID-19. Using payment rates for similar respiratory conditions, Kaiser estimated the average Medicare payment at $13,297 for a less severe hospitalization and $40,218 for hospitalization in which a patient is treated with a ventilator for at least 96 hours."
The "Kaiser" above is the
Kaiser Family Foundation.
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