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Coronavirus spreads after Covid-sceptic bishop's funeral in Montenegro
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Coronavirus spreads after Covid-sceptic bishop's funeral in Montenegro
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Interesting my friend PO1 William "Chip" Nagel.
1. If death was the final issue this might be a big deal :-)
Since death is merely the transition from this mortal coil of life to eternity, I expect this Bishop had saving faith - if not he is destined for eternal separation from God.
2. I heard a report that the Care Act of March 2020 reimbursed hospitals at a 20% higher rate for COVID cases and deaths. I decided to check that out. It is true that the "CARES Act created the 20% add-on to be paid for Medicare patients with COVID-19. "
While this has not been clearly linked to an increase in the reported deaths, it is reasonable that patients who present with multiple maladies would be listed as COVID if their conditions/testing indicated they have or had COVID.
"Minnesota State Sen. Scott Jensen, a family physician, who spoke with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on April 8 about the idea that the number of COVID-19 deaths may be inflated. Jensen, April 8: I would remind him that anytime health care intersects with dollars it gets awkward. Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital, you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.
In an interview with FactCheck.org, however, Jensen said he did not think that hospitals were intentionally misclassifying cases for financial reasons.
But that’s how his comments have been widely interpreted and paraded on social media. One YouTube video with Jensen’s interview, viewed 42,000 times, was titled “US: Hospitals Get Paid More to List Patients as COVID-19…” That video was then posted in a Facebook group called “X22 Report [Geopolitical]” with a caption referencing the specific dollar amounts that read in part: “This also explains the inflated amount of covid deaths.” Nearly 3,000 users shared the video from that post.
“So, hospitals get an extra $13,000 if they diagnose a death as COVID-19,” a widely shared meme on Facebook claimed. “And an additional $39,000 if they use a ventilator!” One post of the meme, shared by hundreds, was captioned: “And then we wonder why the numbers of deaths are embellished…”
The figures cited by Jensen generally square with estimated Medicare payments for COVID-19 hospitalizations, based on average Medicare payments for patients with similar diagnoses.
The CARES Act created the 20% add-on to be paid for Medicare patients with COVID-19. The act further created a $100 billion fund that is being used to financially assist hospitals — a “portion” of which will be “used to reimburse healthcare providers, at Medicare rates, for COVID-related treatment of the uninsured,” according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/
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1. If death was the final issue this might be a big deal :-)
Since death is merely the transition from this mortal coil of life to eternity, I expect this Bishop had saving faith - if not he is destined for eternal separation from God.
2. I heard a report that the Care Act of March 2020 reimbursed hospitals at a 20% higher rate for COVID cases and deaths. I decided to check that out. It is true that the "CARES Act created the 20% add-on to be paid for Medicare patients with COVID-19. "
While this has not been clearly linked to an increase in the reported deaths, it is reasonable that patients who present with multiple maladies would be listed as COVID if their conditions/testing indicated they have or had COVID.
"Minnesota State Sen. Scott Jensen, a family physician, who spoke with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on April 8 about the idea that the number of COVID-19 deaths may be inflated. Jensen, April 8: I would remind him that anytime health care intersects with dollars it gets awkward. Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital, you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.
In an interview with FactCheck.org, however, Jensen said he did not think that hospitals were intentionally misclassifying cases for financial reasons.
But that’s how his comments have been widely interpreted and paraded on social media. One YouTube video with Jensen’s interview, viewed 42,000 times, was titled “US: Hospitals Get Paid More to List Patients as COVID-19…” That video was then posted in a Facebook group called “X22 Report [Geopolitical]” with a caption referencing the specific dollar amounts that read in part: “This also explains the inflated amount of covid deaths.” Nearly 3,000 users shared the video from that post.
“So, hospitals get an extra $13,000 if they diagnose a death as COVID-19,” a widely shared meme on Facebook claimed. “And an additional $39,000 if they use a ventilator!” One post of the meme, shared by hundreds, was captioned: “And then we wonder why the numbers of deaths are embellished…”
The figures cited by Jensen generally square with estimated Medicare payments for COVID-19 hospitalizations, based on average Medicare payments for patients with similar diagnoses.
The CARES Act created the 20% add-on to be paid for Medicare patients with COVID-19. The act further created a $100 billion fund that is being used to financially assist hospitals — a “portion” of which will be “used to reimburse healthcare providers, at Medicare rates, for COVID-related treatment of the uninsured,” according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/
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Hospital Payments and the COVID-19 Death Count - FactCheck.org
Q: Are hospitals inflating the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths so they can be paid more? A: Recent legislation pays hospitals higher Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients and treatment, but there is no evidence of fraudulent reporting. FULL QUESTION Are hospitals getting 13,000 per patient if they write that on the diagnosis is COVID19 on the patient’s chart, and 35,000 for each patient if they are on ventilators? I keep seeing posts in...
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SGT Steve McFarland
And a doctor I know confirmed it. He told me that he was "strongly-encouraged" to list COVID-19 as the primary cause of death on death certificates he signed. Dr. Anderson is one of the Elders in my church, so I have no reason to doubt his credibility.
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