COVID OMICRON Thread

[Ingomike]

And it sure does show up on P/L. It's income.

I will bet not the same lines as normal business. Kind of like the difference between net income and gross income only in reverse. LOL

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

 

[hoosierdoc]

You really believe that poppycock? Now if you said doctors lost money, particularly non emergency types I agree, but the hospitals did just fine…

My income took a 20% hit in 2020 and has not recovered. I'm ER

 

[hoosierdoc]

Gynocologist and urologist?

3 months ago i talked to a urologist. He said due to lack of nurses they were given one OR slot per doc per day. They had a 90-day backlog of surgeries.

I asked a kidney doc how their practice was affected by COVID. They said so many of their patients died it was profound. Also so many nurses quit they had to close many outpatient dialysis units and patients had to change significantly in order to get dialysis

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

3 months ago i talked to a urologist. He said due to lack of nurses they were given one OR slot per doc per day. They had a 90-day backlog of surgeries.

I asked a kidney doc how their practice was affected by COVID. They said so many of their patients died it was profound. Also so many nurses quit they had to close many outpatient dialysis units and patients had to change significantly in order to get dialysis

This sort of thing makes me mad. It is self inflicted and our medical institutions’ supporting of all of this covid reaction is a tragedy.

 

[wtburnette]

This sort of thing makes me mad. It is self inflicted and our medical institutions’ supporting of all of this covid reaction is a tragedy.

Agreed. Maybe the next virus or other disease hits with a 99.9% survival rate we won't overreact and cause so much suffering and death. I won't hold my breath though.

 

[actaeon277]

3 months ago i talked to a urologist. He said due to lack of nurses they were given one OR slot per doc per day. They had a 90-day backlog of surgeries.

I asked a kidney doc how their practice was affected by COVID. They said so many of their patients died it was profound. Also so many nurses quit they had to close many outpatient dialysis units and patients had to change significantly in order to get dialysis

And people were laughed at when they said, be careful the cure might be worse than the problem.

 

[wtburnette]

And people were laughed at when they said, be careful the cure might be worse than the problem.

Except this time there was no cure involved.

 

[actaeon277]

Except this time there was no cure involved.

Okay. Substitute "attempt" then.

 

[jamil]

This sort of thing makes me mad. It is self inflicted and our medical institutions’ supporting of all of this covid reaction is a tragedy.

It’s infuriating.

 

[jamil]

I will bet not the same lines as normal business. Kind of like the difference between net income and gross income only in reverse. LOL

What difference would it make? Income is income. A net loss is a net loss. Even though hospitals got more money per patient for covid, it still didn’t offset the losses. Some of those losses were obviously self-induced, like the “no vax, **** off” employment policy. And some was public policy, like halting “unnecessary services”. And some were just fear based in the general public who feared covid more than they feared complications from not getting treatment for their chronic illnesses.

 

[tim87tr]

Agreed. Maybe the next virus or other disease hits with a 99.9% survival rate we won't overreact and cause so much suffering and death. I won't hold my breath though.

Maybe, unless.....

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[GodFearinGunTotin]

It’s infuriating.

I don't mean to use as broad a brush as this will sound as I am but--I have been disappointed to see how many doctors are either unable to read and interpret data, too invested in a narrative, or simply trained to "follow the protocol" to see the ineffectiveness of the NPIs forced on us for over 2 years and not see more of them question their effectiveness as time went along.

 

[Ingomike]

My income took a 20% hit in 2020 and has not recovered. I'm ER

I knew when I typed it that would be misinterpreted. I read what you posted before and confirmed that with other ER docs, some lost even more. I still believe the hospital systems made out just fine as entities.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I knew when I typed it that would be misinterpreted. I read what you posted before and confirmed that with other ER docs, some lost even more. I still believe the hospital systems made out just fine as entities.

They survived, sure. But overall revenue was down massively for the ones I'm familiar with.

COVID kept people in the hospital a long time. Much longer than typical pneumonia. DRGs and bundled payments mean they only get paid a certain amount for a diagnosis.

It wasn't as lucrative as people think. And shutting down basically all outpatient office visits and surgeries was rough. Our ER volume is still down massively, and we had a 50% hit for months and months. That alone is tens millions of dollars of testing and other downstream revenue gone.

 

[nonobaddog]

Most hospitals took a big hit but some did very well financially.

Despite Covid, Many Wealthy Hospitals Had a Banner Year With Federal Bailout - KFF Health News

As the crisis crushed smaller providers, some of the nation’s richest health systems thrived, reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in surpluses after accepting huge grants for pandemic relief. But poorer hospitals — many serving rural and minority populations — got a smaller slice of the...

khn.org

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Most hospitals took a big hit but some did very well financially.

Despite Covid, Many Wealthy Hospitals Had a Banner Year With Federal Bailout - KFF Health News

As the crisis crushed smaller providers, some of the nation’s richest health systems thrived, reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in surpluses after accepting huge grants for pandemic relief. But poorer hospitals — many serving rural and minority populations — got a smaller slice of the...

khn.org

IU Health must have made out pretty well. Remember that $415MM donation they made?

 

[Ingomike]

Most hospitals took a big hit but some did very well financially.

Despite Covid, Many Wealthy Hospitals Had a Banner Year With Federal Bailout - KFF Health News

As the crisis crushed smaller providers, some of the nation’s richest health systems thrived, reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in surpluses after accepting huge grants for pandemic relief. But poorer hospitals — many serving rural and minority populations — got a smaller slice of the...

khn.org

As in so much in our world, the biggest players were able to use wuwho flu to put smaller businesses out of business

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

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