This ran on NBC Evening News and I thought I should send it to all my friends on Medicare as a warning. I’ve included the segment for you to view. Basically, do not let the hospital admit you with the words "Under Observation." Insist on "In-Patient"designation. Otherwise, you could be responsible for some serious expenses. If your hospital stay is classified as "Under Observation", Medicare will not pay for rehab following your hospitalization.
www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/54026469/#54026…26469
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Oregon health exchange technology troubles run deep due to mismanagement!!
"Shut it down," said Rocky King, Cover Oregon’s executive director. "Let’s not waste anybody else’s time here." OHA’s advisors said a systems integrator was necessary. "The state does not have the development resources with the requisite experience," consulting firms Wakely Consulting Group and KPMG wrote in a joint March 2011 report. They added that the integrator could lead to "significantly lower" overall costs. In July 2011, OHA was poised to follow that advice. It solicited a systems integrator to oversee the exchange work. But that month Oregon Health Authority Director Bruce Goldberg hired Carolyn Lawson to become chief technical officer of OHA. Four months into the two-year exchange project, Lawson changed its entire makeup. She launched a sweeping reorganization of the team working on it, and canceled the solicitation for a systems integrator deciding it would save the state money, documents show. The state would be its own systems integrator.
www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/12/oregon….html
Just off the phone. A Cover Oregon employee who does 10 hour days locked out of computer all day required to stay.
Despite initially denying the existence of the Confidentiality Agreement, the government actors at the Oregon Health Authority have moved into dangerous territory by requiring, as a condition of obtaining taxpayer grants, that a grantee refrain from making”any false, misleading, deceptive, libelous, defamatory, or obscene statements, written or oral,” about a private-sector company doing business with the state. This issue would not be as troublesome if Oregon Insurance Exchange LLC dba Cover Oregon required its private sector contractors to refrain from disparaging its goods, services or products. The State of Oregon, by and through its Oregon Health Authority, is running interference for Oregon Insurance Exchange LLC dba Cover Oregon by requiring current or potential grantees receiving or seeking taxpayer money to refrain from disparaging Cover Oregon, a private sector business. This is probably not the best example of a”public-private” partnership.
oregonoracle.com/cover-oregon-cover-up
Fox’s Red Eye on Cover-Up Oregon
Cover Oregon is officially a NATIONAL laughing stock: Red Eye, the late-night talk show on Fox News, takes aim at the failed website.
While the media have been predictably slow to criticize Cover Oregon Now we Know Why!!
Third party status reports on the Cover Oregon implementation indicate the state knew as early as November 2012 that it would never meet its planned and announced October 1 deadline. Meanwhile, the state was entering into contracts with”community partners” who would do the groundwork required to implement Cover Oregon. When it became apparent that Cover Oregon would not only fail to meet its October 1 deadline, but also fail to even go live online, the state realized it had a public relations catastrophe on its hands that even a $28 million ad campaign could not cover over.
oregonoracle.com/cover-oregon-cover-up
Cover Oregon Cover Up!!
In September of this year, Rocky King, then Executive Director of Cover Oregon, warned state legislators at a joint committee that the planned October 1 roll-out of the program would not go as planned.”It’s not going to be a beautiful implementation,” confessed King, in what should earn King the”Understatement of the Year” award. Indeed, the implementation of Cover Oregon has been an unmitigated disaster, despite $300 million of federal tax dollars poured into the program.
oregonoracle.com/cover-oregon-cover-up
Tim McMenamin 