Loading ...looking for proof that hospitals received financial incentives
Once covid got into full swing, there were many reports that hospitals were incentivized to do various things, including listing patients as having covid, putting them on ventilators and labeling the cause of death as covid. Although I’ve seen and heard this claimed many times, what I have yet to see is anything that verifies the claims.
I’ll appreciate links to info which shows actual hospital incentive schedules, or other proof of financial incentives, for anything and everything covid-related. TIA
In addition, my interest is to know where the money comes from (only Medicare, or elsewhere), how the amounts are arrived at and when covid incentives were first implemented.
My recollection is that I was alarmed at how early in the process I heard rumors of incentives. At the time, I wondered if the rumors were true, did the incentive schedules for covid pre-date the plandemic.
Don’t know the conduit for the money flow but wasn’t something in a Congressional Pandemic appropriation specifically allocated for hospitals? It may have been buried in one of the trillion dollar appropriation bills for dealing with the pandemic.
The general wording is in the CARES Act, but that’s part of the reason for my interest in knowing the details. At this link to the CARES Act, you’ll see the original date of introduction was 01/24/2019. WTF?!
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748
Was the covid stuff tagged onto a bill that was already in progress?
OK, the CARES Act replaced the guts of another bill that was originally introduced in 2019. The story is told at this link: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-cares-act-conspiracy/partly-false-claim-cares-act-bill-introduced-in-january-2019-hinting-at-coronavirus-conspiracy-idUSKBN22J31M
Yesterday there was a thread about the difference in the various states allocation per patient. I meant to comment and was distracted with something else. I think the large discrepancy in the figures for the various states was because the dollars may have been almost the same for each state, so because of population differences and obvious difference in number of cases, the amount per case was a lot greater for those states having less cases.
https://www.hfma.org/payment-reimbursement-and-managed-care/the-new-round-will-pay-50-000-per-covid-19-admission-compared/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/
Nicely done SB!
Thanks, boomer. The Jensen interview, which I’d seen before, was widely publicized. The HFMA page, info I had not yet seen, is much closer to the data I was looking for.
Murder for Dollars
I found this waaaaay down on the sidebar…posted by K2 last summer…may be of some use for you research GB
https://goldtadise.com/?p=500625
Thanks. What I’m looking for is the actual schedule of payments, along with whatever preceded it before the plandemic, as a comparison. A hospital would have it. Maybe dadoc1 has access to such.