New Mexico 'Quarantine" Requirements
We entered NM on Sunday, June 26 from Texas at US-60 in Clovis. Our destination is Arizona (Show Low) for the next couple months. Taking our time, were arrived at an RV park between Belen and Socor...
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Rice wrote:
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Hospitals don't get paid an extra set amount for each COVID diagnosis.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medicare-hospitals-covid-patients/
Thanks for that link, I've been hearing about that for months. It may not be a "set" amount, but they apparently do get more money....
From the link:
"The closest match for the numbers cited by Jensen we could locate was in an April 7, 2020, article published by the health care nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation. As a starting point to estimate how much hospitals might get paid by the federal government for treating uninsured COVID-19 patients, the article used average payments for hospital admissions for similar conditions in 2017:
For less severe hospitalizations, we use the average Medicare payment for respiratory infections and inflammations with major comorbidities or complications in 2017, which was $13,297. For more severe hospitalizations, we use the average Medicare payment for a respiratory system diagnosis with ventilator support for greater than 96 hours, which was $40,218."
