“Hospitals get paid more to list patients as COVID-19.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 10 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
It’s standard for Medicare to pay a hospital roughly three times as much for a patient who goes on a ventilator, as for one who doesn’t. Medicare is paying a 20% add-on to its regular hospital payments for the treatment
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 10 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 April 2020, 11 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Where the claim appeared
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