Could corona test stations also have cheated in the Miesbach district?
No, says Dr.
Florian Meier.
At least not if you use the district office's QR code system.
Miesbach - Two operators of corona test centers in North Rhine-Westphalia are said to have billed significantly more tests than carried out.
A fraud that also falsifies the corona statistics.
Dr.
Florian Meier, medical coordinator in the district, rules out similar cases here - at least for tests that are booked via the www.reihentestung.de portal.
Rapid tests in the Miesbach district: "No billing fraud with the QR code"
Dr. Meier, two nationwide rapid test providers are said to have cheated. Have these also tested in the district?
No.
These companies had no test stations in the district.
Did the testing fraud surprise you?
I wasn't surprised.
I've noticed that more and more private providers are coming onto the market because the quick tests are a license to print money.
Is there fraud here too?
With our portal www.reihentestung.de we can safely say that none of the participating test sites commit any billing fraud or anything else.
All tests are recorded electronically and we can see exactly which test station carried out how many tests on which day.
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Because of the QR codes.
Correct.
Thanks to the QR code system, nobody can bill for tests at will.
If a test station scans 50 codes in a day, I know it has done 50 tests.
You can't say there were 100. All tests are accurately recorded in the system.
They also filter out the test stations.
Correct.
Not everyone comes in at www.reihentestung.de.
The health department checks the hygiene concept, I get everything to be checked against.
We also demand better employee training: Every test site needs medical management and supervision.
An hour of online course, like elsewhere, is not enough.
The test station is only accepted when everything fits.
Will this help defeat the virus faster?
Yes.
We test a lot and well.
That is one of the reasons why we were a hotspot for a long time.
But we don't do the tests so that someone has a certificate in their hand to go shopping.
The purpose is to break the chains of infection.
We did it.
It will soon pay off.
Some providers in the district bill without QR codes. How do you control this?
This is difficult.
The health department naturally also looks at these providers.
But to check whether they are doing everything correctly, we would have to send test subjects.
Even then, no one could tell whether all tests were reported correctly.
So if in doubt, use the portal?
I recommend it.
There you can only find test providers from the district.
The tests help the BRK, the DLRG - not companies from elsewhere that want to make a profit.