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☝️ Cyrus Jannsen discusses the Covid situation in China. Jannsen quoted this article on how the U.S. incentives hospitals to overstate the number of Covid deaths:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-che...
Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators
Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by "The Ingraham Angle" host Laura Ingraham on April 8 on Fox News and claimed hospitals get paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having COVID-19 and get three times as much money if they need a ventilator.
Jensen said, "Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."
He noted that some states, including his home state of Minnesota, as well as California, list only laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses. Others, specifically New York, list all presumed cases, which is allowed under guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of mid-April and which will result in a larger payout.
Jensen said he thinks the overall number of COVID-19 cases have been undercounted based on limitations in the number of tests available.
The coronavirus relief legislation created a 20% premium, or add-on, for COVID-19 Medicare patients.
There have been no public reports that hospitals are exaggerating COVID-19 numbers to receive higher Medicare payments.
Jensen didn't explicitly make that claim. He simply suggested there is an "avenue" to do so now that "plausible" COVID-19, not just laboratory-confirmed, cases can be greenlighted for Medicare payment and eligible for the 20% add-on allowed under the relief act.
Cyrus Jannsen's guest, Alex Reporterfy who lives in China, referred to this website in Seattle, WA which shows much lower numbers of Covid infections and deaths after China's reopening than the mainstream media are portraying.
From China's CGTN, here's an interview with a Hong Kong University Med School professor. He recommends the people in China should have 3 to 4 doses of the vaccines and that the Chinese government should stockpile Pfizer's Paxlovid pills to give to seniors over 65 as soon as they tested positive to save lives. He also believes China has passed the Covid infection peak. I think he's right on all counts. On China's Covid peaking, that seems to be the case at least for the first wave. There will probably be a second wave with the upcoming Chinese New Year. China also has predicted there might be a third wave following that. But they suspect that should be it.
Here's another CGTN program on the Covid situation in China:
Finally, here's a video from a Brit living in China, he, his wife and son all tested positive.
20221226
☝️ Cyrus Jannsen discusses the Covid situation in China. Jannsen quoted this article on how the U.S. incentives hospitals to overstate the number of Covid deaths:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-che...
Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators
Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by "The Ingraham Angle" host Laura Ingraham on April 8 on Fox News and claimed hospitals get paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having COVID-19 and get three times as much money if they need a ventilator.
Jensen said, "Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."
He noted that some states, including his home state of Minnesota, as well as California, list only laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses. Others, specifically New York, list all presumed cases, which is allowed under guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of mid-April and which will result in a larger payout.
Jensen said he thinks the overall number of COVID-19 cases have been undercounted based on limitations in the number of tests available.
The coronavirus relief legislation created a 20% premium, or add-on, for COVID-19 Medicare patients.
There have been no public reports that hospitals are exaggerating COVID-19 numbers to receive higher Medicare payments.
Jensen didn't explicitly make that claim. He simply suggested there is an "avenue" to do so now that "plausible" COVID-19, not just laboratory-confirmed, cases can be greenlighted for Medicare payment and eligible for the 20% add-on allowed under the relief act.
Cyrus Jannsen's guest, Alex Reporterfy who lives in China, referred to this website in Seattle, WA which shows much lower numbers of Covid infections and deaths after China's reopening than the mainstream media are portraying.
From China's CGTN, here's an interview with a Hong Kong University Med School professor. He recommends the people in China should have 3 to 4 doses of the vaccines and that the Chinese government should stockpile Pfizer's Paxlovid pills to give to seniors over 65 as soon as they tested positive to save lives. He also believes China has passed the Covid infection peak. I think he's right on all counts. On China's Covid peaking, that seems to be the case at least for the first wave. There will probably be a second wave with the upcoming Chinese New Year. China also has predicted there might be a third wave following that. But they suspect that should be it.
Here's another CGTN program on the Covid situation in China:
Finally, here's a video from a Brit living in China, he, his wife and son all tested positive.