Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators

Do hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators? Our fact check team says yes.

"How can anyone not believe that increasing the number of COVID-19 deaths may create an avenue for states to receive a larger portion of federal dollars. Already some states are complaining that they are not getting enough of the CARES Act dollars because they are having significantly more proportional COVID-19 deaths."Jensen said,"Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate.

Jensen clarified in the video that he doesn't think physicians are"gaming the system" so much as other"players," such as hospital administrators, who he said may pressure physicians to cite all diagnoses, including"probable" COVID-19, on discharge papers or death certificates to get theHe noted that some states, including his home state of Minnesota, as well as California, list only laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses.

Jensen said he thinks the overall number of COVID-19 cases have been undercounted based on limitations in the number of tests available.There have been no public reports that hospitals are exaggerating COVID-19 numbers to receive higher Medicare payments.

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