I share your concerns as a retired hospital financial analyst. The old games people play routine. Lies, damned lies, and statistics thing. Yet as another freeper on another thread stated: Occam’s Razor stipulates that you do not test the dead when resources are scarce.
Yep. When my late husband and also my 100 year old Mom-in-Law were in the hospital and I was there to sign forms, I could almost see “the wheels turning” in the physician’s head as he checked boxes and made decisions about needed tests and duration-of-stay in ICU in order to satisfy Medicare-claims rules.
I too am retired Hospital Reimbursement Sr Financial Analyst. The hospitals will get lot of $$ from Fed government for patient expenses related to COV19.
Cuomo budget was 6B in the whole and he had until April 1 to fix it. Now he gets a boost from the Federal Government due to State of Emergency. He closed hospitals, lost 20K beds due to Medicaid and Uninsured patients. Government will help pay for uninsured patients (100B).
Hospitals who claim they are being over-run, desperate, not enough beds, staff, equipment, we’re all going to die, will get the biggest chunk of FED funds.
Connecticut is about to go bankrupt due to their pensions and need COV19 Federal funds to offset their budget problems.
CDC has changed the rules and now it’s not if they had COV19 and died it’s if you even assumed, presumed they died from COV19 then you can also count those as COV19 deaths.
Anyone else notice on CDC website they are calling COV19 a DISEASE not a VIRUS?
FOLLOW THE MONEY. Cuomo closed hospitals due to Medicaid debt, uninsured patient debts, which led to 20K less hospital beds and has 6B budget hole to find money for to fix.
Anybody dies in NY hospitals will be determined death by, from COV19 so they can add to the body count.