Children's hospitals get next to nothing in the first $30 billion tranche of federal money.
On one side of the winding Potomac River, Maryland's hospitals just got a much-needed infusion of stimulus cash as they treat some 10,000 coronavirus cases. The federal help amounted to $73,986 per COVID-19 patient.
The gaping discrepancies are playing out across the country as Washington doles out $100 billion in emergency aid to hospitals, doctors and clinics besieged by the pandemic. The first tranche of $30 billion started going out Friday, divvied up not based on infection rates but on past Medicare spending.
Whatever portion of overall Medicare spending a hospital or provider received last year, they were given that same portion of the $30 billion. Story continuesStates with higher rates of people on Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income people, have lower rates of Medicare use, so they got lower amounts relative to their population. Obstetricians are another group largely left out, since they have fewer patients eligible for Medicare.
But Congress, which created the $100 billion fund for hospitals, has taken note. Maryland's delegation wrote the administration Tuesday calling the failure to account for COVID-related expenses"disappointing," while New Jersey's delegation said its portion was"insufficient in the face of this global epidemic" in a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate.
"How can that be?" New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo mused at one of his daily coronavirus briefings."It can be because in the Senate, it became a game of political pork."
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