Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota family physician .. Medicare pays a hospital $13,000 bonus if the hospital admins paperwork says that covid was involved.... If the paperwork says that a ventilator was involved the hospital admins get $39,000..
Jensen .. under the CDC guidelines, a patient who died after being hit by a bus and tested positive for coronavirus would be listed as having presumed to have died from the virus regardless of whatever damage was caused by the bus.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/physician-blasts-cdc-coronavirus-death-count-guidelines
Have to agree.
Years ago, went to a wedding in Canada.
At the reception, they put me at a table with a bunch of Doctors.
The Doctors began “coaching” one young Doctor on how to book the services provided to his patients. Seems Doctors have discretion to record major versus minor procedures.
The young Doctor was leaving too much revenue on the table, and needed to record more of his work as a major service.
This is socialized medicine.
It’s the old time union mentality in reverse. Back in the day, senior union types would lean on the newbies and coerce the newbies to slow down to union speed