Hospitals get paid more when patients are listed as COVID-19?

Minnesota senator, and doctor, Scott Jensen during an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s show:

Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.”

Author: S. Smith