Hospitals are restricted from attending to normal patient needs restricting their income. The law also sets up specific funding tied to not only positive COVID tests, as well as ventilator use and other treatments for COVID, forcing hospitals to depend heavily upon these diagnoses to remain fiscally solvent. Yet you feel this will have no effect on the results of diagnosis, treatment, or outcome of any of these patients?
"Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators"
hospitals dont get funds for just writing the word covid.
"Coronavirus fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators"
then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes
up to $39,000."
a normal hospital bed with its nurse observations at regular intervals. and maybe a bloodox monitor heartrate monitor.. but no ventilation is like $600 a day. add in a few tests, and some pain relief meds and other daily stuff. and 14 day hospital stay would be the AVERAGE $13k ($900 a day)
its not a fixed total.
its case by case. and then later in hindsight. after adding each case up. then dividing the case by case totals by the number of patients the report is associated with. then they get an average..
WHICH MEDIA THEN USE THIS SUBJECTIVE NUMBER, somehow but wrongfully as a fixed bill per patient
its funny how you idiots ignore purposefully dont understand the many layers of stuff that is defined under the word "upto"
if however they need the ICU ward the costs are more because the salary of the staff is higher as they are more trained. this means a ICU bed is then over $1k a day because it involves more observations. more hands on care, more monitors. more meds. then add in the ventilator and also include the anaesthesiologist costs of putting them in a coma. and all the other costs. then it can be UPTO $39k for a 14 day stay
its not a guaranteed fixed $39k
its an averaged $39k based on a 14 day ventilation. and as you even pointed out other averaged out things scale down
EG if the person only needed to be on ventilator for 7 days. the costs would be lower
doctors need to actually perform these treatments. they cant just write 'on ventilation' while the patient is in the ED waiting room and get a couple $K a day. the patient actually has to have been given that treatment
to then claw back the costs later
and that treatment has to be given by actually showing the patient required it. such as blood'ox reports/graphs of the patients monitors showing a decline of oxygen in the blood. aswell as other pre-eventilation procedures like giving CPAP/BiPAP first and those not solving the problem.
aswell as observation notes of physically seeing the symptoms of a patient screaming they cant breathe and gasping for air.
the accounts department dont just take a 'covid' sentance and just say heres $39k
they actually look at if the treatment was required, and if it was administered and for how long.
so for all you idiot fools that think that while a patient is sat in the waiting room of a ED talking about their weekend with an occassional cough. the accounts department is funnelling $39k into the hospitals bank accounts. then you are just idiots.
again even badecker debunked himself when the doctor he promoted that was giving patience with just cough symptoms. but decided to put them in a coma and ventilate them. he got reprimanded the very same week.. because the doctors actually get checked on
..
lets word this another way
if it was that simple to funnel money in with just a 'covid positive' result on a medical record.
we would see hospitals shouting 'open house, everyone come in for a test and a cookie.'
but they are not.
they are actually telling people to stay home and not be sissy cry babies about minor things and only come in if its really neessesary. because they only get paid for the treatments they actually give and they only have a small finite amount of resources to actually give actual treatment