Posted on 02/10/2014 2:36:00 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
LOS ANGELES — The California health care exchange has taken down its physician directories, amid continuing complaints from doctors and patients alike that the lists of doctors and hospitals included in each insurance plan were error-riddled and unreliable.
Since the October rollout of Covered California, inaccuracies have posed countless problems: The lists described doctors as fluent in languages they did not speak; obstetricians were labeled as ophthalmologists; and physicians were falsely listed under insurance plans that did not cover care at their offices.
The directories were temporarily pulled from the website in October, after the exchange acknowledged there were problems with the data. Revised lists were put back online late last year.
But the exchange announced late Thursday that those revised lists would be removed “until further notice” because more errors were found.
“Until we know what’s causing these problems, the directories are probably better down than up,” said Jeff Rideout, a senior medical adviser for Covered California.
“These networks are very different, depending on which plan you choose,” he said. “You have to pick the right plan to get the right hospitals and providers.”
Mr. Rideout said he hoped the lists could be restored to the website, but he would not say if or when that would happen. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
hackers?
When liberals run anything what the hell do you expect???
So now instead of merely difficult to find a doctor, it will be next to impossible.
The article briefly mentions but glosses over the most likely reason: seven out of ten doctors according to the CMA are refusing to comply with Obamacare. Just as in the open letter by a Texas opthamologist recently, the government is rewriting contracts without the consent of the doctors, violating the basic rules of contract law.
It won’t be that hard. In CA just ask your gardener not the government.
Big deal. All the rich Hollywooders can pay whatever the doctor of their choice charges them. I guarantee Ben Affleck has not signed up.
Somehow I think that the doctors on that exchange are FMGs from hell
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Removed the physicians’ directories ...
Is that like when I had my appendix out ...
or when my dog got fixed?
I suppose that’s one way of stopping the bitching. I suppose next they’ll go the Popular Science route and shut down their email servers?
They took the lists down because people call those doctors and are told the doctor is NOT taking new patients.
This Obamacare scam is going to kill people... luckily for Obama he’s got the press in his pocket. They’ll ‘miss’ the real story...
They took the lists down because people call those doctors and are told the doctor is NOT taking new patients.
This Obamacare scam is going to kill people... luckily for Obama he’s got the press in his pocket. They’ll ‘miss’ the real story...
Hey Ian Lovett if you want to do a nice follow up, call some of the doctors that were on that list. Then try to find a qualified doctor who will see you... and don’t tell them you’re with the New York Times. Do some old fashioned investigative reporting... rather than getting your story fed to you by folks who get fed by democrats who are pushing an agenda.
Who knows, conservatives could be wrong on this... wouldn’t you like to know?
motre like dumb ass state employees aka SEUI
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