Why do some people think that some doctors were bribed to give COVID vaccines?
The usual suspects...
Were Doctors Bribed to Give COVID Vaccines?
In this case, the idea that doctors were bribed to give COVID vaccines is back, being laundered in the anti-vaccine echo-chamber because Peter McCullough thinks it is some kind of bombshell he has discovered.
A "bombshell" that a US Representative tweeted about over a year ago...
A "bombshell" report from a "leaked" document that has been on the BCBS website for nearly three years!
Can you guess what else about Peter McCullough's bombshell isn't true?
"Do you know what the bonus was to the doctor? About a quarter million dollars!"
Peter McCullough
While doctors were provided with a bonus payment as an incentive to get more of their patients vaccinated and protected, there is no way they qualified for huge bonuses as he suggests.
Why not?
The patients of a typical doctor aren't all going to have Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid insurance! In Kentucky, there are thousands of health care providers that take care of nearly 1.3 million patients enrolled in the state's Medicaid managed care organization plans, with Anthem being the smallest of five Medicaid MCO plans.
So even if all of the doctor's patients were in a Medicaid MCO, it is unlikely that all of them would have Anthem.
And even if they did, they almost certainly did not have high enough vaccination rates to qualify for the highest incentives.
Anthem had "a vaccination rate of about 25%" in 2021, when their incentive program ran!
So while it doesn't seem like Anthem's incentive program worked too well to boost COVID vaccination rates among its members, it did help to demonstrate how folks like Peter McCullough create and push propaganda against vaccines!
"Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid (Anthem) recognizes the unique challenges providers experience while caring for our members, and we appreciate the quality of care consistently offered by so many of our providers. In recognition of these efforts, Anthem offers the Smoking Cessation Provider Incentive Program (SCPIP). Anthem has designed SCPIP to encourage providers to provide smoking cessation counseling to members who use tobacco, including referring them to Kentucky’s Tobacco Quitline."
2023 Smoking Cessation Provider Incentive Program
Fortunately, Anthem providers have another way to make some extra money! They can help their patients quit smoking.
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- Doctors are "pushing vaccines"? Gee, you say that as though that were a bad thing!
- Anthem BCBS Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Incentive program
- Anthem BCBS Kentucky COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Incentive program News
- Kentucky Medicaid 2020 Annual Report
- Vaccination rate of Kentucky Medicaid members is about half the overall rate
- No, Blue Cross Blue Shield physicians aren't paid a bonus to meet a vaccine quota
- Incentive programs for physicians are built around quality metrics, not just volume
- Hospital Payments and the COVID-19 Death Count
- Anthem is offering an employee incentive to receive the COVID vaccine
- Association between statewide financial incentive programs and COVID-19 vaccination rates
- Impact of incentives on COVID-19 vaccination; A systematic review
- Can Vaccine Incentive Reward Programs Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake?
- Incentives for COVID-19 vaccination
- Do Incentives Encourage COVID-19 Vaccination?
- 2023 Smoking Cessation Provider Incentive Program
