Yes. A LOT more funding. That's a huge problem with the CV death counts. Hospitals have always gone for the money when coding deaths. Now it's rampant because they're losing so much money due to covid in all other departments. They are trying to make it back with covid payouts and so are incentivized to code as covid no matter what the real cause of death is. There's virtually no penalty for a false code. You don't even have to test - you can provisionally code as covid. Supposedly you have to provide the test as followup but everything's so fucked up right now, no one is following up. The media certainly don't care to investigate.
Contrast with flu, which pays LESS than almost every other type of code. That's why flu deaths are chronically underreported - no money in it. Any other cause is likely to pay more, so that cause gets the code, even if it was the flu that finished off the patient.
Even the CDC agrees it's a factor. Which is why flu deaths have to be estimated.
Yes. A LOT more funding. That's a huge problem with the CV death counts. Hospitals have always gone for the money when coding deaths. Now it's rampant because they're losing so much money due to covid in all other departments. They are trying to make it back with covid payouts and so are incentivized to code as covid no matter what the real cause of death is. There's virtually no penalty for a false code. You don't even have to test - you can provisionally code as covid. Supposedly you have to provide the test as followup but everything's so fucked up right now, no one is following up. The media certainly don't care to investigate.
Contrast with flu, which pays LESS than almost every other type of code. That's why flu deaths are chronically underreported - no money in it. Any other cause is likely to pay more, so that cause gets the code.
Even the CDC agrees it's a factor. Which is why flu deaths have to be estimated.
Yes. A LOT more funding. That's a huge problem with the CV death counts. Hospitals have always gone for the money when coding deaths. Now it's rampant because they're losing so much money due to covid in all other departments. They are trying to make it back with covid payouts and so are incentivized to code as covid no matter what the real cause of death is. There's virtually no penalty for a false code.
Contrast with flu, which pays LESS than almost every other type of code. That's why flu deaths are chronically underreported - no money in it. Any other cause is likely to pay more, so that cause gets the code.
Even the CDC agrees it's a factor. Which is why flu deaths have to be estimated.