Errors Continue to Plague Government Health Site

[STIBROKER]

Errors Continue to Plague Government Health Site | Peace and Freedom

Insurers and federal officials sifting through insurance applications under the health-care law have identified a raft of errors, including missing customers and inaccurate eligibility determinations that mean people may be enrolled in the wrong coverage.

 

[ActuaryGuy]

Mission.Accomplished.

 

[AllenChicago]

June 4, 2014

The government has discovered that a whopping 25% of the 8 million who enrolled through Healthcare.gov have "data errors" with their application.

Excerpt:
"Those consumers were still able to enroll in Marketplace coverage — as provided for in the law — but, when they enrolled, they received a notice instructing them to submit a little bit more information," HHS spokeswoman Julie Bataille explained today in a blog post.

Where a consumer fails to provide the follow-up information, or reveals that they have erred, the policy will be revoked and a request for subsidy repayment will be made, Bataille said. She said the agency is scrambling to follow up with each applicant, commonly requesting copies of paystubs as proof of income or birth certificates to verify the correct spelling of a name.

"We are working with consumers every day to make sure individuals and families get the tax credits and coverage they deserve and that no one receives a benefit they shouldn't," Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokesman Aaron Albright told ABC News.

Full Article: Obamacare Sign-Up Errors Put Some of 2 Million Enrollees in Jeopardy - ABC News

If an insured is "asked" to pay back any subsidy overpayment and doesn't, because it was HHS's error, will the health insurer then be on the hook for it? I bet there's some wording buried in the +20,000 pages of the Affordable Care Act to this effect. If so, agents would face commission recaptures too.
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[Duaine]

The average family of four was asked to electronically submit 21 different pieces of information relating to identity, age, income eligibility, etc., when applying for a plan under the Affordable Care Act, according to HHS.

 

[Norwayguy]

So 8 million enrolled but 2 million might not be eligble...Wonder why this 25% wasn't mentioned when O was touting the success of his program?

 

[RayNY]

No no no.

Not "ineligible", just "inaccurate". If one of those 21 pieces of information Duaine mentioned doesn't jive, they check it, and about 2 million people are getting checked.

To quote Albright: "Two million consumers are not at risk of losing coverage — they simply need to work with us in good faith to provide additional information that supports their application for coverage"

Can be anything from a paystub, to marriage cert, to proof of residence.

 

[taterpeeler]

and in regards to this there is, according to last report, no one on hand to check the data submitted.

25% sounds about right as I am assisting some of my clients to execute the request... I see at HC.GOV that they need XYZ and we submit it electronically. Site shows submitted then the client some month or so latter gets these harassing letters to submit the docs... client calls me complaining and I say its submitted and we look at the gov website... all submitted... its the old dog chasing their tail... the marketplace has no clue about how to run this thing.

 

[somarco]

The average family of four was asked to electronically submit 21 different pieces of information relating to identity, age, income eligibility, etc., when applying for a plan

That's more information than required to qualify for food stamps, housing assistance or welfare.

Also more than is required to vote .........................

 

[RayNY]

On the bright side, it's a whole lot less than NY requires to own a pistol, 31 pieces of info, plus quadruplicate approval are required.

I'm pretty squeaky clean, and I can't even get approved...They'll hand me a rifle that can drop a mid sized dinosaur with a 15 minute background check, but won't let me get a plinker.

 

[somarco]

Rifle's aren't concealed weapons unless you are Pahoo.

You may be too young to understand that. And technically, he used a shotgun, not a rifle.