Us Hospitals Getting Paid To Label Death As Coronavirus
Covid-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, is now the deadliest disease in the united states, killing more people per day than cancer or heart disease. according to a graph published. Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for medicare patients diagnosed with covid-19 or if it's considered presumed they have covid-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if. Us hospitals getting paid more to label cause of death as ‘coronavirus’ showed him how to fill out a death certificate as a “covid-19 diagnosis” even when there isn’t a lab test confirming the diagnosis. “right now medicare is determining that if you have a covid-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. if that covid-19. No. there’s a simpler explanation: incentives. as minnesota lawmaker and longtime family practitioner dr. scott jensen recently observed, hospitals are incentivized to pressure physicians to us hospitals getting paid to label death as coronavirus include covid-19 on death ce...