Indeed, big disincentives.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:30 pmAnd any hospital would have to back up a claim of COVID in legally getting such an increased reimbursement. There are disincentives to get this wrong.runrussellrun wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:23 pm (omitted discussion of why there is an undercount)
ggait, you keep on ignoring the financial aspects of listing COVID on the death cert.
Of course, there will be some fraud.
Important to have whistle blower protections...and for those who don't understand private whistle blower law, the whistle blower (and their lawyers) get a big chunk of any fines when defrauding the government is found to have occurred.
But as a proportion of the whole, fraud will be very low just as it is in Medicare reimbursements etc. Indeed, I'd bet lower because the fraudsters didn't have a running start on planning to perpetrate schemes, as this thing blew up so fast and furious.
The unreported cases are likely to be far higher, especially in those peak months when testing was so scarce. You'd think that would get better over time.