well, they are paying for the treatment, then there's all the respirators they got, ppe it's quite a list I think. Generally the bill is based on what the treatment and hospital stay length. the higher the acuity the higher the charge and they increased that for "covid" patients.
then the cares act
so let's say a person goes to the icu because they have covid, seems legit, unless they don't actually need to be in the icu, not everyone who has covid needs to be in an icu right? You don't get paid for empty beds, beds that aren't filled and aren't used....there's no one to charge for them right? Now you basically have guaranteed income by filling those beds, no need to worry about insurance or lack of. There's no way they can monitor every hospital and every case to look for potential fraud with the magnitude of what's going on. Not only that but they can generally justify it enough that it would be a long and expensive process to come to some determination. Not every hospital would do this, but I bet most are more liberal with these claims, treatments and monitoring. If someone is in the icu with covid but dies of some other condition, well if you list covid you'll get more reimbursement, they did have covid after all. Do you see the problem?
