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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 4959165" data-attributes="member: 45230">How about the whole quote?Jensen clarified in the video that he doesn&#039;t think physicians are &quot;gaming the system&quot; so much as other &quot;players,&quot; such as hospital administrators, who he said may pressure physicians to cite all diagnoses, including &quot;probable&quot; COVID-19, on discharge papers or death certificates to get the <a href="https://www.aha.org/special-bulletin/2020-03-26-senate-passes-coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-cares-act" target="_blank">higher Medicare allocation allowed under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act</a><a href="https://www.aha.org/special-bulletin/2020-03-26-senate-passes-coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-cares-act" target="_blank">.</a>Instead of what the reporter thought.<h2>Our ruling: True</h2>We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 4959165, member: 45230"] How about the whole quote? Jensen clarified in the video that he doesn't think physicians are "gaming the system" so much as other "players," such as hospital administrators, who he said may pressure physicians to cite all diagnoses, including "probable" COVID-19, on discharge papers or death certificates to get the [URL='https://www.aha.org/special-bulletin/2020-03-26-senate-passes-coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-cares-act']higher Medicare allocation allowed under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act[/URL][URL='https://www.aha.org/special-bulletin/2020-03-26-senate-passes-coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-cares-act'].[/URL] Instead of what the reporter thought. [HEADING=1]Our ruling: True[/HEADING] We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE. [/QUOTE]

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