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In medicine, comorbidity is the presence of one or more additional conditions often co-occurring (that is, concomitant or concurrent with) with a primary condition. Comorbidity describes the effect of all other conditions an individual patient might have other than the primary condition of interest .......comorbidity often refers to disorders that are often coexistent with each other
Anybody else tired of wearing a mask for all this BS?
originally posted by: Blue_Jay33
Anybody else tired of wearing a mask for all this BS?
You are never going to de-tangle comorbidities.
originally posted by: Blue_Jay33
a reply to: chr0naut
You are never going to de-tangle comorbidities.
This is exactly the point......
An 85 year old man has heart disease, stage 4 cancer, diabetes and pneumonia he goes to bed one night and doesn't wake up in the morning, he dies in his sleep, what really killed him with all these comorbidities ? What does the hospital claim it could have been, with so many problems he had, what do you put on the death certificate, what you think most contributed to his death. Is it the last thing he got, the pneumonia or the problem that most contributed to his death, the cancer.
Or this scenario; a positive Covid test 3 hours before he went to bed, and we get more money for that, let's put that on the death certificate.
We have had doctors and nurses say COVID treatments and deaths are monetized, that alone will sort out the comorbidities in favor of COVID, also speak out, and lose your job. A job they spent a huge amount of money getting an education for, turning a blind eye is survival for these people, unless they want to be fired and black balled in the entire health care sector.
More than 200 different viruses are known to cause the symptoms of the common cold. An estimated 30-35% of all adult colds are caused by rhinoviruses. In people with asthma, particularly children, rhinovirus infections are also frequently associated with flare-ups. Scientists had previously identified 99 distinct rhinovirus types. Recently, however, a number of unknown types were detected in patients with severe flu-like illnesses.
originally posted by: slatesteam
Maybe so. Maybe it does most definitely “cost more” to take care of patients. Got me there.
What’s your reasoning for hospitals getting paid to deem deaths as “because of Covid”......?
The hospitals are paid according to the cost of treatment, not for a diagnosis of any particular disease.
Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital, you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: chr0naut
The hospitals are paid according to the cost of treatment, not for a diagnosis of any particular disease.
Umm, wrong, as usual.
Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital, you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000
source
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: chr0naut
I did. They pay more for additional treatment.
If a hospital puts someone in a bed, whether it be for 5 minutes or 5 days, they get $13,000.
I mean are you seriously dense and unable to see the potential for abuse there?
And that abuse happened.