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I have read multiple social media posts making the claim that hospitals are getting paid money for Covid-19 deaths. I found this claim shocking to say the least. So I did a little checking for myself. This list is a small bit of the information that I found. What I found was that hospitals are not getting paid for Covid-19 deaths. What is happening is that some hospitals, due to the CARES Acts passed by congress, saw about a 20% increase in payments only for medicare patients that required treatment for Covid-19. Here are just a few pieces of information that I found . . . . Do Colorado hospitals get extra money for coronavirus cases and deaths? Yes and no. Hospitals do get higher Medicare reimbursements for COVID-19 care, but there are no such payments for deaths by By JESSICA SEAMAN Denver Post But there is no financial benefit to having a death certificate state that a person’s cause of death was directly tied to COVID-19, said Dr. Leon Kelly, El Paso County’s cor...