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Our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID

Donald Trump · A statement as president · 2020 · Race: President of the United States

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Checked against Section 3710 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136): a 20 percent increase in the Medicare inpatient payment weight for a hospital discharge of a patient diagnosed with COVID-19 during the emergency, paid to the hospital and not conditioned on the patient dying.

The record: Public Law 116-136, the CARES Act, section 3710: Medicare inpatient add-on payment for COVID-19 patients

Context

The statement was about how COVID-19 deaths are counted in the United States.

Topics: COVID-19.

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Sources

  1. Donald Trump's false claim that doctors inflate COVID-19 deaths to make more money · PolitiFact · 2020-11-01 · accessed 2026-09-18
  2. Public Law 116-136, the CARES Act, section 3710: Medicare inpatient add-on payment for COVID-19 patients · U.S. Government Publishing Office · 2020-03-27 · accessed 2026-10-15

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