Good Morning for MediSys

On Wednesday, December 19th, ABC –TV’s Good Morning America aired a segment that focused attention on the abuses of HMOs such as United / Oxford and how these companies deny health care coverage to elder patients.  The story featured Jamaica Hospital President and CEO, David P. Rosen as well as members of the hospital’s Social Work, Nursing and Case Management Departments.

The seven-minute story chronicled the case of one, previously active and productive 77-year-old Jamaica Hospital patient who was repeatedly denied coverage for in-patient admission and rehabilitative care under Oxford Health Care’s Medicare Advantage Plan after she sustained an acute fracture of her lumbar spine.  Despite Oxford’s denial, this patient was provided all necessary care at Jamaica Hospital, and then at the Trump Pavilion for sub-acute rehabilitation.

This report, told by ABC correspondent Chris Cuomo, will hopefully raise public awareness to this national scandal and be the first step in bringing about reform to this practice of unwarranted denials. 

To see the entire segment, please click on the following link: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4025709&affil=wabc