What oops? If you have to treat people with special machines and extraordinary attempts to save their lives you should go in the red?
It is a national crisis. That is what government is for. The costs for caring for these patients is INCURRED Costs. They don't get paid for classifying them as a COVID patient, they get money for BILLING costs. They have to put them on a ventilator to charge for putting them on the ventilator etc... Oh I am sure there are charges that seem stupid. You get wheeled into a room and are there 10 minutes and they put you in another room and it shows up on the bill for huge amounts, but that is always the case with medical costs. Nothing new here.
Kaiser estimated the average Medicare payment at $13,297 for a less severe hospitalization and $40,218 for hospitalization in which a patient is treated with a ventilator for at least 96 hours.
“A COVID patient on a ventilator will need more services and more complicated services, not just the ventilator,” said Joseph Antos, a scholar in health care at the American Enterprise Institute. “It is reasonable that a patient who is on a ventilator would cost three times one who isn’t that sick.”
Medicare will pay hospitals a 20 percent
“add-on” to the regular payment for COVID-19 patients.
That’s a result of the CARES Act, the largest of the three federal stimulus laws enacted in response to the coronavirus, which was signed into law March 27.
“This is no scandal,” Antos said.
“The 20 percent was added by Congress because hospitals have lost revenue from routine care and elective surgeries that they can’t provide during this crisis, and because the cost of providing even routine services to COVID patients has jumped.”
But EVERYTHING is a conspiracy today. LOL. HIDE YOUR COINS.. .THEY WANT YOUR COINS..... LOL.. THEIR COMING FOR YOUR COINS....They are afraid you will melt them down for bullets after the New World Order takes over... I just made that one up... Watch how long before it shows up on a Facebook MEME. LOL