Hospitals can bill about $20,000 additional if the case is logged as COVID related.
An additional $50,000 can be charged if the patient is put on a ventilator for up to 96 hours.
All paid for by the $100 billion government “stimulus” program.
Holy shit, that's crazy! Thank you for posting this. With this kind of funding, I think that probably explains why the USA had around twice as many COVID deaths per-capita as Canada had. Two morons I know were so proud of Canada's outcome being better than that of the USA. I've always been annoyed with that type of American-bashing by Canadians, who don't seem to grasp that everything that puts them in 21st century comfort comes from American corporations.
I immediately knew there was more to the story. I initially guessed disparate population densities between Canada and the USA, and the USA having large Black and Hispanic populations probably explained the outcome.
But I think the lucrative funding you mentioned above is a massive incentive to commit fraud.
It will be interesting to see what happens in the months ahead, now that the fear and hysteria over COVID has worn off, and so many people have been negatively impacted by the COVID
measures, as opposed to the virus itself.
Thank you for posting that.