Minnesota Doctor who Revealed Hospitals Get Paid More for COVID-19 Patients Is Now Being Investigated by the State

Gateway Pundit ^ | 07/06/2020 | Jim Hoft

[Hugh the Scot]

I’ve read it. Several times actually...

The document does give guidance that is likely to affect statistical data regarding COVID-19.

That’s a long, long way from supporting what he said in the media.

The doctor engaged in hyperbole, encouraging others to do so as well.

[zeestephen]

Re: “I’ve read it. Several times actually...”

You read this...?

“If COVID–19 played a role in the death, this condition should be specified on the death certificate. In many cases, it is likely that it will be the UCOD, as it can lead to various life threatening conditions, such as pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In these cases, COVID–19 should be reported on the lowest line used in Part I with the other conditions to which it gave rise listed on the lines above it.”

It says COVID-19 “should be reported on the lowest line used in Part I...” if it leads to pneumonia or ARDS.

That's the UCOD line.

If you substitute “Influenza” for “COVID-19” in that sentence, we are going to have 150,000 influenza deaths EVERY year.

[Svartalfiar]

this Dr is full of it!! everything in medicine is diagnostics driven, same with a death certificate, list primary cause secondary cause, hospital payments are all diagnostic driven for medicare. and subject to review by payors. and overpayments for any reason can be recovered up to 5 yrs after the fact.

No, it's not. Read one post above yours, from zeestephan. Do you know how many people actually die from confirmed flu a year? A couple hundred to maybe a thousand. The rest of the CDC's 50-60M "flu deaths this season" is people with pneumonia (also called influenza-like illness), or them "estimating" the data.

What about all those articles about nurses sending in blank samples or goat samples for COVID testing, that come back positive? How about the lady that completely skipped her testing appointment, and got a letter days later saying she was positive? What about CDC mentioning that the four common cold coronaviri can potentially cause you to test positive for the ChinaVirus? None of those sound properly "diagnostic-driven".

For any CDC reportable illnesses, there is no reliability on just a doctor diagnosis, if that's what you mean. You have to have tests and actual diagnostics run to confirm that the suspected illness is what's actually present.