Posted on 12/15/2013 6:17:22 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Saturday that it reduced the error rate in enrollment data sent to insurance companies under the new health care law, even as insurers said that the government’s records were still riddled with mistakes.
The quality of the data is important; it could affect the ability of people to get medical care and prescription drugs when they go to doctors’ offices and pharmacies starting next month.
For each person who signs up, the government is supposed to send information electronically to an insurance company in a standard format known as an 834 enrollment transaction. In some cases, consumers selected a health plan at the federal website, HealthCare.gov, but the government did not notify the insurer. In other cases, insurers received duplicate files for the same person, files for one person were sent to an insurer in another state, or the “relationship code” was wrong so that, for example, a man’s daughter was listed as his wife.
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Insurers said that they found many discrepancies and errors and that the government was overstating the improvements in HealthCare.gov.
In some instances, they said, the federal government reported that the home address for a new policyholder was outside an insurer’s service area. In other cases, a child was listed as the main subscriber — the person responsible for paying premiums — and parents were listed as dependents.
In some cases, children were enrolled in a policy by the federal government and parents were left off, or vice versa. In other cases, the government mixed up the members of a family: A child or spouse was listed two or three times in the same application in late November. Such errors can have financial implications, increasing the amount of premiums that a family is required to pay. . .
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Really, can you believe anything this Administration says? It is and has become a bit of a joke! Even the Media has given up on them.
Starting next month Millions of Americans will have lapsed insurance.
That’s right no insurance. But the people who Obama wanted to help will have Medicaid, unfortunately those who had insurance will be standing in the rain.
Just went to the site and hit the apply button. It would be funny if it was not so sad! That site is a hot mess.
“Insurers said that they found many discrepancies and errors and that the government was overstating the improvements in HealthCare.gov.
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Welcome to the world run by liberals.
Thanks Democrats and all dweebs who voted for these losers.
ObamaCare represents a yet another route to wholesale government dependency via the new Medicaid enrollments.
That’s exactly what it was meant to do.
On January 1, there will be fewer people insured than there were on October 1.
Only the federal government could have accomplished such a perverse trick.
Once again, I will ask, has 0bamacare provided ONE PATIENT with healthcare to date?
And secondly (discuss among yourselves) the impacts of 9/11/2001 and 0bamacare.
In a month or two, anyone think delays in HC will cost the lives of 3000 people?
Or will produce the estimated $100 bn in economic damage that 9/11 was estimated to have produced?
And has turned entrepreneurialism in this country into partially-hardened jello?
Who is dumb enough to pay actual money into this piece of sewage???
Oh yeah, huh? The only people signing up are those who are expecting a subsidy and a debit card of some kind.
“But the administration has encouraged insurers to relax those deadlines and to take other steps to ensure a smooth transition for customers. “
What the administration is encouraging, worked smoothly WITHOUT 0 care. 0 care is not needed obviously because their only “fix” is — go directly to your insurance company, do not stop at the exchange.
The 0 care data base is garbage. 0 care created garbage from people’s data entry and they cannot fix it on the 0 end because they have no record of what people typed in originally.
Only the insurer and customer can sort out the messed up data.
There should be a class action suit from all of those who lost their insurance. Nancy Pelosi should be a subject of that suit, but of course I am sure she is immune to such,
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