Doctors in Kentucky, California Received Millions in Bonus Payments for Vaccinating Medicaid Patients Against COVID By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
Documents reveal that the federal government and insurers incentivized healthcare providers in Kentucky and California to vaccinate Medicaid patients against COVID-19 by offering bonuses based on the percentage of patients successfully vaccinated.
The federal government and insurers incentivized healthcare providers in Kentucky and California to vaccinate Medicaid patients against COVID-19 by offering bonuses based on the percentage of patients successfully vaccinated.
“[This is] truly sickening and I am embarrassed for my profession by this,” Dr. Meryl Nass, an internist and biological warfare epidemiologist, wrote on her Substack, where she posted several documents relating to the COVID-19 vaccine provider incentive programs.
The documents help to draw a picture of the broader effort at the federal, state and local levels to unleash a range of strategies targeting low-income and people-of-color communities, which tended to have lower vaccination rates.
The strategies included providing hundreds of millions of dollars for the creation of “culturally tailored” pro-vaccine materials and for training “trusted” and “influential messengers” to promote COVID-19 and flu vaccines to communities of color in every state.
Nass’ revelations showed these efforts went beyond advertising, fear campaigns, payments to patients and payments to trusted community actors and included, in some cases, direct financial incentives to healthcare providers.
Kentucky: Medicaid paid doctors up to $250 per vaccinated Medicaid patient
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid in Kentucky told physicians in 2021 it would “recognize your hard work by offering incentives for helping patients make the choice to become vaccinated.”
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Most of us got our first COVID vaccines from the emergency administration tents set up as soon as it was available, and the later ones at our pharmacies...nobody needs to get them from their doctor & add the cost of the visit to it. i get my flu shots the same way, as i suspect most people do. what a funny little world you live in......
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Apr 19, 2023
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I am curious how they managed the cold storage requirements
in transportation to and administration from parking lots and tents.
Also, it seems there would be a considerable risk of accidental
intravenous injection in a drive through, especially since there was
no training in aspirating the syringe before injection in the US.
No matter where you got your jab, someone was likely getting paid.
The tax payers are on the hook for all of the 'free vaccinations'.
Most People have caught onto that vaccines are a too great of risk to one's health. They now been injection the vaccines into our animals and soon into our vegetables. That's why I grow my own food and teach the easiest and healthiest way to grow urban farms. Plus tiny houses that most people can afford and portable, in case of land law problems.
@BDair In my state, CT, the person actually injecting the vaccine was an RN, EMT or actual doctor. The intake interviewers (not those administering the shots) and security personel (mostly firefighters, mostly monitoring the 15-minute after-shot wait) were all volunteers. The tents were to shield us a bit as we waited in line outdoors for the intake interview/registration, (there were long 'safe distancing' lines.)
the actual injections were done inside the buiding, with, like, chairs & desks and screens forming cubicles put up around them. the vaccines were in glass ampules in small refrigerators by the side of each desk.
it was winter (actually snowing on my first visit) and the facility used was part of a local college's sports field outbuildings with full kitchen, electricity & etc.
i was in & out in under 25 minutes, the drive home in that snowstorm took longer.
Why, exactly, do you seem to see the primitive Outback of somewhere when you envision things?
oh, wait, becaue you cannot be bothered with facts, or (easily!) finding out for yourself?
@Castlepaloma They are running out of sheep.
Most people are done with being experimented on.
There are billions of dollars worth of the jabs
around the world that are expiring and will be landfilled.
I would prefer to not have to pay for an experiment
that I chose not to participate in.
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