Hospital system missing $165 million dollars due to sloppiness (or is that a cover for corruption?))
By Con Volines
@ConVolines (1449)
May 20, 2018 11:33am CST
Is the Cook County Health & Hospital system really missing $165 million due to sloppy errors? Or is this just an excuse for corruption? I cannot believe this is just another coincidence, and that everyone involved is honest but useless. Can you?
Amid broader financial woes for Cook County, the county hospital system lost an estimated $165 million due to widespread errors, prompting rebukes from two county commissioners.
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@ConVolines (1449)
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22 May 18
Are you a conspiracy theorist? 
Just joking. I'm a "conspiracy theorist" too. Better than being a coincidence theorist who can't put two and two together or connect dots.
Just joking. I'm a "conspiracy theorist" too. Better than being a coincidence theorist who can't put two and two together or connect dots.1 person likes this
@aureliah (24316)
• Kenya
27 May 18
@ConVolines Let me be one in this because what a 'huge error'.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
20 May 18
Having read the article, I can quite believe that the shortfall is down to incompetence, laissez-faire and a lack of understanding of the detailed and exact paperwork which insurance companies (understandably) require. I don't see any evidence of deliberate misappropriation of funds. I guess (or, at least, I hope) that the medical staff were paid for the work they did. It seems, though, that the clerical staff weren't sufficiently well trained abd didn't follow proper procedure in claiming from the health insurance companies and therefore many claims were refused and not followed up.
