100%... the whole EMR edict started the ball rolling and it has picked up speed as it goes down hill, i was just going by the title that said 0bamacare, but i guess the EMR thing really is part of it too not just the insurance debacle
Posted on 11/28/2013 8:47:33 AM PST by dontreadthis
One of the aspects of Obamacare that everyone seems to have forgotten at the moment is their effort to put everyone’s personal information, medical and otherwise, into a central database. With this system in place, you can kiss your HIPPA privacy goodbye. Last week, we heard from our youngest daughter that she was receiving doctor’s bills from a doctor she’s never seen. Some of the bills were from visits earlier this year and because they have not been paid, her credit score has been dinged. When she checked into it, she found out that the doctor’s office had her birthdate, address and Social Security Number. They submitted the bills to our daughter’s Medicade coverage and then billed her for the rest. As you can imagine, she was frantic, thinking someone had stolen her identity so she called the local police. After taking her report, the police officer called my wife for more information. He basically told my wife that he believes that our daughter had sought medical treatment at this doctor’s office and either forgot or was trying to get out of paying the bill. My wife explained that our daughter lives in northern Kentucky and the doctor’s office is on the west side of Cincinnati in an area that our daughter would never go to.
When I heard what happened, my first suspicion was that it wasn’t identity theft as much as it was identity mix-up due to the Obamacare centralized database and told my wife and daughter of my suspicion. About an hour later, the policeman called my daughter to tell her that the doctor’s office treated someone else with the same name and they somehow pulled up my daughter’s information by mistake. Since my daughter had never visited that doctor’s office or any other office associated with this practice, the only way this mistake could have happened is that they got my daughter’s information through the centralized database created by Obamacare. The doctor’s office said they are correcting the billing and will notify the credit score agency, but this has revealed a two-fold major problem with the centralized database that I predicted from the beginning. First, mix-ups like this will happen more and more and innocent people that aren’t that alert will be paying other peoples doctor bills or their credit scores will suffer from it. Second, anyone with access to the centralized database will have access to anyone’s personal information including address, Social Security number, insurance policy name and number and more. Tens of thousands of medical, insurance and government workers have access to the centralized database and everything they need to steal your identity or more. If I were you, I would be very careful about every medical bill you get and check your credit score regularly. You may have no idea when it could happen to you.
Appearing before Congress on Thursday, the magicians of Obamacare eventually conceded that, on their supposedly HIPAA-compliant database, deep in the “information architectural process” is a teensy-weensy little bit of “source code” that reads, “You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication of any data transmitted or stored on this information system.”
Mark Steyn
Obamacare’s Magical Thinkers
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/362255/obamacares-magical-thinkers-mark-steyn
Obamacide.
It did not have to be caused by the database. It could have been based on a credit report request based on the correct patient and SS# with the credit reporting agency sending information for both persons with the same name.
100%... the whole EMR edict started the ball rolling and it has picked up speed as it goes down hill, i was just going by the title that said 0bamacare, but i guess the EMR thing really is part of it too not just the insurance debacle
yeah, the EMR edict is starting to come to light as it takes it's toll on people's privacy and HIPPA be damned i believe here in NY medicaid is basically a welfare goldcard because there are other venues for subsidized/reduced cost healthcare plans
They put up token resistance, then had to be dragged kicking and screaming by SOME truly conservative representatives to oppose it. Tammy Faye Boener is a joke.
The office treated someone else with the same name and they somehow pulled up my daughter’s information by mistake.
Don’t they issue a number to everyone bet this will happen often and the scammers will have a holiday for years.
“My mother already gets calls from pharmacies to pick up prescriptions she already has.”
My mother died in 2003, and yet her Medicare Insurance Provider is still sending her “invitations” to “come back” to them! I guess I should check to see if she’s still voting!
ON farther consideration the whole story rings false. If she is on Medicaid why would she be in the Obamacare central database? I have news for her, her info is already available to certain parties. Why would the police get involved in what is essentially a billing mistake? I’m pretty sure it takes a lot more to show that identity theft has occurred and to raise law enforcement concerns.
Proving she was not the patient who received medical care should be very easy because I don’t know of any doctor’s office that does not require a photo ID and a copy of your insurance (gov’t or private) card when you have an appointment. All she would have to do is show them her ID and they would have seen she was not their patient.
It is possible that the she was a patient at another facility owned by the medical provider. It also could be that the provider uses a centralized billing service. The bill for my doctor in Miami comes out of Atlanta. I can see where a person might see the address of the billing office and think it was the physical address of the provider as well.
I would doubt that even one in a thousand employees in the medical professions are ever background checked.
I have a pretty common name, and I am terrified of all this info going into one big pool of information.
The Federal government thinks that ONE SIZE FITS ALL and that is just wrong.
“NO WAY am I signing on to this website and giving my information. If they penalize me, fine. If I go without coverage, fine. Better to lose SOME of my money than ALL of it. “
Unless you are looking for a government handout, you are better served by getting insurance through a private broker. We’ve been successful in getting reinsured through AMAC. They have licensed brokers in three locations around the country and our experience is that they are very professional. AMAC is the conservative answer to AARP. Give them a try!
Communism
The gift that keeps giving
The CPUSA and its handiwork need to be dispatched, with extreme prejudice.
Went thru something like this. Ex-wife got several phone calls from a doctor in Indiana we had never heard of or been to (we are in KY). This was several years ago so I guess not Obomacare. They had our phone number and her info and we never found out why.
Went to a local branch of the small bank I use, a branch I had never used in a small town close by. I was making deposit into my account with my deposit slip filled out when the teller asked for my driver’s license. I gave it to her and she promptly told I was not who I said I was because she knew a man in her small town by that name. I said well that will surprise my mother cause she gave me that name fifty some years ago. Since I didn’t seem very concerned she rolled out her trick question, what is your wife’s name, I told her and she said no I know her and she is not married to you.
I told her she was in the car waiting for me if you want to speak to her. By this time I am PO’ed I explained that I was attempting to put money in her bank not take it out. If I was running some kind of scam wouldn’t I be taking money out?
The teller picks up a phone to call police when another teller says he is who he says he is I set up his account at another branch 7 years ago. My teller glares at me and completes the transaction. I raise a little sand and a vice president calls me at home to say they are sorry and told me they have in Louisville and the local surrounding counties 6 couples with my and my wife’s first, middle, and last names. Says she is sorry and her employees are trained to know better.
Can’t imagine how many times Obomacare will make the same mistake. Could be interesting.
Yup. Let’s turn over our medical histories to the IRS. What could go wrong?
. I know a 63-year-old single male with low income and high assets who is paying $350+/- a month for State Medicaid.
Medicaid is not like insurance where you ‘pay’ a stated amount every month. That $350 is considered a share of cost for medical services for 1 month. In other words if you have medical bills for November you have to pay $350 before Medicaid will pay the rest. Then the $350 starts again in December.
It actually is a helluva deal for anyone who has high medical bills. The share of cost can go all the way down to $0 based on your income.
Yes I used to be a MediCal eligibility worker in California. That is what Cali calls its Medicaid.
You guys are kinda in the shallow end of the gene pool, aren’t ya? 8^)
100%, you never had a rectal exam till you've had a government rectal exam... We KNOW you're hiding something up there, so Bück dich!!!
Wow!
Another very good reason (to add to the thousands of others) not to darken any doctor’s door!
They can’t have your “records” if there are no records.
>> “What happens when they pick up the wrong person’s medical history, and kill you by prescribing something you’re allergic to?” <<
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In modern medical parlance, “a regrettable incident.”
“Buck-up pal, we can’t always be right!”
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