{"id":16555,"date":"2020-07-30T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16555"},"modified":"2020-07-30T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:16:28","slug":"so-far-this-year-medicare-has-paid-2-8-billion-for-covid-19-hospitalizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16555","title":{"rendered":"So far this year, Medicare has paid $2.8 billion for COVID-19 hospitalizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to updated data from CMS, so far this year, Medicare payments for fee-for-service COVID-19 hospitalizations have totaled $2.8 billion.\u00a0 The data also shows Medicare paid providers from a low of $5,248 to $70,685, for an average of $25,255 for COVID-19 hospitalizations.\u00a0 However, according to healthcare consulting firm Avalere, private payers are slated to pay the largest portion of COVID-19 hospitalization costs ranging from $9.6 billion to $16.9 billion in 2020. Read article<a href=\"https:\/\/revcycleintelligence.com\/news\/medicare-payments-top-2.8b-for-covid-19-hospitalizations-so-far\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15672\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to updated data from CMS, so far this year, Medicare payments for fee-for-service COVID-19 hospitalizations have totaled $2.8 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,42,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16556,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions\/16556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}