At a government hearing on July 31, 2020 CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield confirmed that United States hospitals have a financial incentive to increase their count of COVID-19 attributed death numbers. [2]
...ultimately, it’s how the physician defines it in the death certificate and … we review all of those death certificates.
said Dr Redfield
- An additional 20% is added to the hospital bill for COVID-19 diagnosis
- Admissions to hospital for non-COVID-19 reasons, including kids, then test positive for COVID-19 are then treated as a Covid patient and if they die are labelled a COVID-19 death.
- In first 6 mth of 2020 hospitals who reached 161 COVID-19 admissions would “receive $77,000 per admission on top of what they are already paid” from the Cares Act, but hospitals in states with a late surge they missed out on the funds.
- COVID-19 pneumonia – $13,000
- Ventilated – $39,000
Over coming month it is revealed that automobile accidents and gunshot to the head are classified as death due COVID-19. [2]
In December 2020 Minnisota lawmakers called for “a full audit of Minnesota’s COVID-19 death certificates” as they could be inflated by 40%, which Senator Scott Jensen MD has been aware of the issue for months. [1]