USA today did a fact check on this well at least the funding part:
Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it's considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases.
We know the policy of putting patients on ventilators prematurely killed large numbers of people. Most died of bacteria pneumonia after being put on a ventilator. So for most patients it was literally a death sentence, and the hospital got a cash bonus for using this treatment protocol.
USA today did a fact check on this well at least the funding part:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/
We know the policy of putting patients on ventilators prematurely killed large numbers of people. Most died of bacteria pneumonia after being put on a ventilator. So for most patients it was literally a death sentence, and the hospital got a cash bonus for using this treatment protocol.