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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956281
08/06/20 03:58 PM
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The Governor of Ohio tested positive today. Maybe he just is over tested. You tell me.

Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: charles] #6956306
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Originally Posted by charles
The Governor of Ohio tested positive today. Maybe he just is over tested. You tell me.

Maybe he just wants time to himself ... grin


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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956326
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Supposed be 2 ppl I heard today that are positive for covid. At work, that not seen since call back a few wks ago, I thought they quit, no idea if true or not

Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956334
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Welcome back , coonman


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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: bowhunter27295] #6956468
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As Mark Twain said "there are 3 kinds of lies.
Lies, dam lies, and statistics."

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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956471
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Not sure about that, but one thing I know for sure is there are alot of false positives that are counted. I am a correctional officer in NC at a processing camp. Every new arrival is tested and you wouldn't believe the amount of positive tests. The inmates are placed in segregation only to be let out a couple days later after they test negative. I would not hesitate to bet that this happens in 3 out of every 10 tests. We have only had 9 confirmed cases at our facility, staff and inmates combined. Keep in mind that we process apx 600 inmates every 3 weeks and ship throughout the state. So from what I have seen the numbers are "SKEWED" dramatically, as I am sure the false pos are not taken out of the count as medical staff have to report nightly. Just my observations....

Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956545
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"We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE.

Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it's considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases."

I'm lost. Hospitals get paid more than what?
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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956547
08/06/20 08:28 PM
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more than they if it wasn't covid. Now your found. Lol

Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956557
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I see. If it is lung cancer they get less. smile


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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956561
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Dirt, hospital billing is a mess and I won't even try to dive into the different rates, charges, etc. That being said you can simply be charged differently for a hospital stay whether a physician admits you as "Observation" or "Inpatient." It's not much of a stretch to add a Covid- ICD 10 code for a little extra charge.


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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956562
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My sister runs a nursing home and they have to test all staff every week. 2 weeks ago the person that does the test screwed up and accidentally sent in 3 test that were never used. Meaning they never swabbed anything. All three came back positive.


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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6956564
08/06/20 08:44 PM
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Pee on this Ima go read about magnetic fields of 330s


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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Leftlane] #6956572
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Pee on this Ima go read about magnetic fields of 330s

I've inquired about that on the trapping only thread. I'm waiting to see where I can go read more about it.


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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6957057
08/07/20 11:04 AM
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What Medicare pays

By Tom Kertscher, PolitiFact reporter

An article shared on Facebook questions whether the count of COVID-19 patients is inflated, saying hospitals have a financial incentive to claim that a patient has the virus.

"Hospitals get paid more to list patients as COVID-19 — 3 times as much if put on ventilator," the story’s headline states.

The article was posted on WorldNetDaily, a conservative news website. It was produced by The Spectator, which describes itself as a conservative publication. The Spectator reported on comments made by Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

Jensen said on Fox News that doctors are being encouraged to cite COVID-19 as a cause of death on death certificates and he suggested that money is a motivation.

Medicare has determined that a hospital gets paid $13,000 if a COVID-19 patient on Medicare is admitted and $39,000 if the patient goes on a ventilator, he claimed.

Jensen did not respond to our request for information.

The federal government has decided to pay hospitals more for treating COVID-19 patients. But it isn’t a windfall in the way the headline suggests. And there is no indication that hospitals are over-identifying patients as having COVID-19. If anything, evidence suggests the illness is being underdiagnosed.

How Medicare pays hospitals

Medicare pays for inpatient hospital stays using a diagnosis-related group (DRG) payment system. The hospital assigns a code to a patient at the time of discharge, based mainly on the patient’s main diagnosis and treatment given.

Medicare then pays the hospital a prescribed amount of money — regardless of what it actually cost the hospital to provide the care. The amount can vary in different parts of the country to account for labor costs and other factors.

The amounts

The dollar amounts Jensen cited are roughly what we found in an analysis published April 7 by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a leading source of health information. (Kaiser Health News, which partners with PolitiFact on health fact-checking, is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)

There isn’t a Medicare diagnostic code specifically for COVID-19. Using payment rates for similar respiratory conditions, Kaiser estimated the average Medicare payment at $13,297 for a less severe hospitalization and $40,218 for hospitalization in which a patient is treated with a ventilator for at least 96 hours.

"A COVID patient on a ventilator will need more services and more complicated services, not just the ventilator," said Joseph Antos, scholar in health care at the American Enterprise Institute. "It is reasonable that a patient who is on a ventilator would cost three times one who isn't that sick."

Medicare will pay hospitals a 20% "add-on" to the regular DRG payment for COVID-19 patients. That’s a result of the CARES Act, the largest of the three federal stimulus laws enacted in response to the coronavirus, which was signed into law March 27.

"This is no scandal," Antos said. "The 20% was added by Congress because hospitals have lost revenue from routine care and elective surgeries that they can't provide during this crisis, and because the cost of providing even routine services to COVID patients has jumped."

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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6957063
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Ohio gov. now tests negative.

This is a common problem.

Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: bowhunter27295] #6957077
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Originally Posted by bowhunter27295
So hospitals receive 5k for pneumonia or 39K for covid on a ventilator.

You do the math.


"Compare Medical billing costs for Pneumonia (Simple Pneumonia & Pleurisy With Major Complications) in U.S. Hospitals

CMS.gov released billing data from 2575 hospitals for "Pneumonia (Simple Pneumonia & Pleurisy With Major Complications)" in 2011 . The average medical billing charge was $37,408.93 and the average medicare reimbursement was $10,053.70."

"Roughly 15% of people infected by the coronavirus could require hospitalization, and a small share require invasive mechanical ventilation. The cost of these admissions will vary by severity and payer. In an earlier analysis, we estimate that, among people insured through a large employer’s private health plan, hospitalization for pneumonia ranged from an average of $9,763 to $20,292 in 2018 depending on severity and comorbidities associated with the condition. However, patients who need to be put on a ventilator would have much higher costs. In 2018, ventilation treatment for respiratory conditions ranged from $34,223 to $88,114 depending on the length of time ventilation is required, for patients in large employer plans. Treatment costs on a per patient basis for comparable admissions will be lower in Medicare and Medicaid, where providers are reimbursed at lower rates. For example, average hospital payments for pneumonia with major comorbidities or complications are $10,010 under Medicare, and hospitalizations for respiratory system infections requiring ventilator support are $40,218. Under the CARES Act, Medicare will pay a 20% premium for COVID-19 treatment, but per admission payment is still less than that for the same type of admission for people with private plans, on average."

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Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6957097
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Don't worry the CDC is on top of the testing. If you believe that ask somebody with Lyme how accurate the testing is. Personally I think they could be spending time and money some other way than all the testing. There has been some thats been sick as dogs with it only to test negative. It seems to just be the nature of the beast and as long as you or I are not a statistic then it doesn't matter, lol.
One thing I have seen in the beginning was we only had 1 case, she worked at SIU University and she was kept at home. Then we had a girl at church came down with something in her chest and she tested positive then in a few days she remembered she had been sanding concrete with no mask. She tells her Dr. and they tested her 2 more times negative and let her go back to work. Both cases was on the county tally and the girl that had had the concrete dust was never taken off.

Then we went weeks with no other cases and then all of a sudden from another big hospital in an other county they brought in a 87 year old woman dying with it and on hospice. Our little hospital had an agreement with the other to help out each other. I assumed that since things were dying down that maybe they needed at least one patient so they could get in on the gravy train. Well she died here and never was counted. So I am thinking well she got counted somewhere else. Then my best buddy died from it at St. Louis and he has never showed up on the count here. So thats 2 that wasn't counted here.

Now we have 8 in our little hospital with it that is not from here. In the mean time the last week its gone like wildfire in the bank, grocery store and one church.

I guess when the vaccine comes out I will be first in line provided I can get it without the chip which is another prefabricated lie for dissension and thats the gospel, I guess!

Re: COVID Tests Skewed? [Re: Trapper7] #6957111
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They cant even get the testing right but you will be the first in line for a vaccine?? Seems it would be easier to develop a test than a vaccine.

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Originally Posted by Yes sir
They cant even get the testing right but you will be the first in line for a vaccine?? Seems it would be easier to develop a test than a vaccine.


Well I'm wearing out staying isolated as much as possible , as a three times a week church goer and haven't been since this all started. Go get supplies once an month. My wife has to go to the Drs often with her ankle and no way way can I believe hospitals are a safe place. In the mean time my best buddy dies from it that only lived a mile from me. So at least getting the vaccine I have a hope and if in the trials its not killing anyone then I figure at least no harm. Got any better ideas I'm open to them except that when the election is over this will all magically disappear?

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Originally Posted by Foxpaw
Originally Posted by Yes sir
They cant even get the testing right but you will be the first in line for a vaccine?? Seems it would be easier to develop a test than a vaccine.


Well I'm wearing out staying isolated as much as possible , as a three times a week church goer and haven't been since this all started. Go get supplies once an month. My wife has to go to the Drs often with her ankle and no way way can I believe hospitals are a safe place. In the mean time my best buddy dies from it that only lived a mile from me. So at least getting the vaccine I have a hope and if in the trials its not killing anyone then I figure at least no harm. Got any better ideas I'm open to them except that when the election is over this will all magically disappear?

God's words in the Bible speak a fair amount on worry, trust, death, about who is control and who will provide and take care of you. That's were my faith and trust comes from. Not trying to turn this into a religious thread and I know some of you guys aren't believers so no need to make me aware of that. Just one Christian talking to another here.

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