Whistleblower says Contra Costa Health cutting dangerous corners, harming Medi-Cal patients
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
- In Costa Contra County, a new state Medi-Cal benefit called Enhanced Care Management is accused of ignoring medical needs, sources familiar with the system tell NBC Bay Area. Candice Nguyen reports.
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When a paid spokesperson rolls their eyes at a question, it’s a really bad sign. These people are criminals.
UNHOUSED DRUG ADDICTS- NEED BETTER MEDICAL SERVICES
WORKING UNVAXXED TAXPAYERS - NOT ALLOWED INTO MEDICAL FACILITIES
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@@fladave99 It will just get worse in Demo run area's because they need room and money to care for the illegals instead. AI will be the weapon of choice and escape goat.
this may not a size of Boeing case, but lately being a whistleblower in the U S is really terrifying...
DO NOT get sick
Ever
They poison of food & water?!!!
UNHOUSED DRUG ADDICTS- NEED BETTER MEDICAL SERVICES
WORKING UNVAXXED TAXPAYERS - NOT ALLOWED INTO MEDICAL FACILITIES
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight?????
Not in this country.
Stay off of street drugs, drink well..water to ounces
If you're 200 lbs, drink 100 ounces
Stay away from seed oils
I pay Kaiser Permanente $1954/month for health insurance but my family of 6 members rarely use its services. Kaiser Permanente gave me and my family 3 months out for primary care appointments. And for specialist appointments are from 3 to 4 months. If we can’t wait that long, Kaiser Permanente told us to go to urgent care. I work in healthcare industry for 23 years. And I see health programs and their providers including administrators pocket millions of dollars from tax payers. And no one can do anything about them.
I’ve had Kaiser for years and years through work for $22 monthly for 3 people. I live in a small town and we only have basic care here but 15 miles away they offer other services. I’ve never had an appointment that far out when I schedule. Usually it’s within the week or even the same day. Specialist appointments at the most is 10 days later if they’re not in the building that day. Demand to be serviced!
They pick and choose when making appointment. Your Kaiser is probably the same wait time as mine. I noticed different wait time depends on which insurance I use. Sometimes they don't even make appointment. On avg, mine is 3+ months for dr appointment
Something has to be done about all this! I drive for a living and the company doesn’t offer medical insurance so my husband and I pay for medical insurance and I hear so many customers telling me they don’t know why they are even paying for insurance because their bill they receive after the fact is ridiculous and they didn’t just pick any insurance they researched them and one said after paying for 5 years and they got sick and after they got home they were dropped from the company and their bill was high like the company only paid for a portion 😢 it’s like just one big scam all across America 😢
Check out their profits, it's shocking and grotesquely immoral, a total racquet. Americans deserve better, time to overhaul the system.
Maybe a very cheap basic hospital plan - for a catastrophe, etc is a better option, put that money in a medical savings account?
Thank you for covering this. Contra Costa county Frontline workers (Nurses/Doctors/Social workers) are incredibly frustrated with what appears to be blatant misuse of funds at the expense of those we purport to serve: the indigent and the poor.
State should revoke their medical program
There is nothing more heartwarming than when whistle-blowers and amazing investigative reporters merge ❤ it's what is needed 😊
We need to go back to healthcare..... not "healthcare for profit"..... this started in the 70's..... the greed of a few, impacting the many.... for these 50 some years.😪💔🙏
My mom died in contra costa county in a skiled nursing facility under Kaiser care. Stage 4 bedsores and they would not do aggressive care. It was all about $$$$
thank you for the real perspective i’m 24yo trying to figure it out
I think you made a mistake with the video description, but good on that whistleblower for standing up for the right thing!
god bless the person that came forth may the lord keep her in grace and blesses her with good things
So where is the money going? it's just giving taxpayers the illusion of providing services and helping those in need. What a dumpster fire! Thankful to the whistleblowers, who risk a lot to shine a light on these issues.
Into their pockets.
What are they spending the money ON?
@@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307 Probably their own pleasures.
Please investigate more…
How much money have they donated to the Governor?
You do realize that because you showed the email in the video report that this was no point in blurring the nurse's face, don't you?
Right! The nurse is going to suffer from retaliation after this report.
Yet another case of those in power helping themselves. That money goes somewhere, and that is in the pockets of those with too much already.
It’s been happening across California
Stop smoking ANYTHING
stop snacking
Drink water to ounces
Stay away from seed oils in foods
Practice intermittent fasting
Oh this is everywhere! I have first hand experience and have seen it myself!!! This is in Santa Cruz county.
This a nationwide problem I am one of the victims without a voice.
What happened to you?
@@peacefreedom4930 what the hospitals keep saying is it’s behavioral in nature, what documentation and imaging shows is complete vital organ failure and intestinal ischemia making gastric emptying impossible. March 27th I went in with congestive heart failure they only stabilized me long enough to get home after 6 hours of listening to the nurses partying and flirting with security guards. More guards then doctors and nurses combined. Only they are physicians assistants not doctors in their 20s. All hospitals in Oregon are like that and in the rest of the non profit hospitals and clinics in the nation since Obama left office and made a almost 1600 page executive order regarding these new mandates.
@@peacefreedom4930 I was vomiting blood for 8 days as black as black could be probably about five liters after that hospital visit. I’ve been stuck in bed since only pissing blood once a day in a bathroom three ft away.
We look forward to the day that doctors and nurses only handle health care Not management companies!!!
At 59 yrs old, I pay Kaiser $1,085 per month out of pocket. I was paying another HMO $1,300 a month out of pocket. With Kaiser I have to wait 3+ months for an appointment. I had psoriasis develop on my scalp, no where else and never had it before, oh that will be a 3+ month wait. They tell you for see a nurse practitioner at the drop in clinic inside Target. Now they push phone visits for everything. Now this morning I see Biden wants to provide health care to more illegal immigrants. I can’t afford to go out to dinner or take a weekend vacation.
fuck that made me sad ): god bless you I send love and energy to your spirit my human friend
Try to take vit d 3. I had the same issue. It's very painful. Once I started that it helped immensely. The drs only give meds that do help, yet dangerous. Please give this a try. You've got nothing to lose.
You can fix that problem with a "coal tar" hair shampoo available OTC. The doc won't do anything, but prescribe a steroid or other drug to suppress your overly aggressive immune system. Those drugs will create more and much bigger problems than they solve. Get the shampoo. It doesn't smell great, but it gives hair a beautiful luster. And btw, I went through all that back in the 1980s. It will take a few months to completely clear up the scalp and you may have to keep using that for years, but eventually the immune system will likely rebalance on its own .... unless you disregulate it with steriods or other strong drugs. Then, it's anybody's guess what the long-term prognosis will be.
+NBCBayAreaNews *Thanks for the heads up on suspected malpractice in Contra Costa Health Services.*
Contra Costa Health Services won't care about mental health either. They don't care about complexities in a bloated situation, nor will they record documents that would be evidence of said situation. All they care about is a "common criminal" who allegedly assaulted police officers because clearly there's no way the police would have lied to cover their sorry asses about how they assaulted the "common criminal" blatantly in a civil matter where they didn't help with already broken communication in general.
Do you care if $90B goes to foreign country? It could provide free health care and save lives and less inflation
To whom?
We could start with the $3.8B we send to Israel annually, not including special assistance packages.
They provide universal health care, cheap university and other services, subsidized partially by the US taxpayer.
If they can provide those services, they don’t need financial aid. We should use the funds to provide them to our own people.
We could also eliminate the annual $20B or so of direct subsidies the oil and gas industry receive. They’re mature, extremely high-profit industries that don’t need them.
According to this video, we already spend some $2B/year on healthcare just for this one provider and just in Contra Costa county, and what do we get for it? Almost nothing! So how is cutting aid to Israel and putting a few billion towards healthcare *nationwide* going to change things? No, more money isn't the solution. Better management is necessary.
could have ended world hunger and homelessness ...but no its for death...smfh
My husband is sick. He’s lost 80 pounds in 2 years without trying.. It takes 3 months to get an appointment with any doctor. He waited 2 months to get an mri, now he’s waited 4 month to get a colonoscopy. There’s so much more to this.. but I really think my husband is going to die before he can get treated. I hate contra costa! 😢
There’s a movie about something like this. They pointed out that the insurance companies want us to die before they have to spend money helping us.
I don’t know much about this particular system and how everything works. But if I were you I’d start with research. You want to know the policies and procedures for the program. You’re looking for the contrast in how they are supposed to treat your husband and how they are actually treating him. Once you find significant violations you have to put it in writing and request they follow their own written policies. It would also be helpful to have an idea of your husband’s potential diagnosis. It seems like he likely has a GI issue. You can literally google his group of symptoms or use webmd (if that’s still around). Usually you’ll get a list of potential conditions that cause those symptoms. Then you have to narrow it down by process of elimination. The benefit of this is you can then look up the treatment plan. Now you can research specialist for that. Once you know the correct policies and procedures, potential diagnosis, appropriate tests and treatments, and some specialist, you’re ready to right a letter to his doctor and the ombudsman of the hospital. Be concise. Describe the situation, background, your assessment of what the potential diagnosis might be, and make your ask for what you want to happen testing and treatment wise. Strength your ask by throwing in their policies and procedures that state how this should have been handled. Express any suffering your husband is enduring. This should get a response. If it’s not the response you want escalate it higher up the totem pole until you’ve exhausted all options.
Google an alkaline diet while you are waiting. Illnesses and cancers can’t survive in an alkaline state within the body.
Take him to Florida and pay cash for holistic healthcare western medicine doesn’t work it’s only for emergency surgery
As a healthcare worker, things like this makes me want to switch my drivers license from being an organ donor to not being a donor…
This is for my old job. Compass Health Network. They give 37 clients to a worker and expect the worker to manage all within 30 days. I’m talking about folks with substance use addiction, mental illness, drug addicts…………. I was told to sign off on things I wasn’t trained for. I left within 90 days. Couldn’t keep up with. 37 people, each having their own need/medical issue.
The US needs a NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
No!
No national system. We need single payer system like before health insurance companies existed. My grandpa was a doctor who practiced medicine from 1930 to 1970. Doctors and hospital charges were reasonable because it was what people could pay. No insurance companies making profit. Doctors and patients making decisions together. NHS is a failure. Canadian healthcare has many problems. When has our government ever done any program "right"?
The more money involved the more corruption.
Disgraceful CEO's .
When money is involved there will be corners cut. Its all about profit. Remember a patient cured is a customer lost.
Thank you. California has a track record of disregard to TLC. That has been needing to be fixed.
To the Nurse Whistleblower, “
God bless you !”
Scammers!
We need more attention on this topic
I believe all of it! My mom passed away due to negligence in a rehabilitation facility. She was only in her 70s and healthy prior to going there!
My condolences. That is horrible to lose someone who had made it to that age with good health and all because of careless people. ❤
Wow the companies explanation was pretty heartless and pathetic.
In Arizona the office staff & “case managers” interfere with doctors care then bill for doctors appointment. CMS refuses to help even terrorized by health system that drug allergies are used to force cooperation.
Fabulous investigative piece. Cudos to Jocelyn Moran.
Their just there to collect a paycheck very sad. I read that every new person to our country gets free Healthcare in Cali. I pray more good people start to stand up for the places that aren't very nice.
I was an agency nurse for 30+ years which means I have worked all over southern CA at various hospitals (units: med/surg, ICU, ER, DOU, etc) from South OC to Palmdale to help with staffing shortages. These stories are nothing new and if you attempted to report the incidents to upper management or to the State nothing was done other than you had to fill out an "incident report". No attorney would take on any of the cases me or another nurse would want to file.
In 30+ years I had the state of CA swarm a facility only ONCE and that was because I called a specific person that I personally knew at the time. He called me at home once they were on site and I gave him names and dates of all incidents of past and current patients that were in house..basically I told him where all of the bodies were buried ( it's an idiom-look it up) and provided the shovel and map for him to find the buried information.
It's sus that all of a sudden "They care" (state, attorneys) because every nurse has witnessed negligence, malpractice, staff or patient endangerment that falls on the deaf ears of management, and the State.
😢
That is terrible. Im so grateful for this brave nurse for bringing this to light!!
They are all like this. PERIOD
Public health nurses are in the role of social worker (while being totally OVERPAID) and social workers in the role of nurse (underpaid considering they are doing “nurse” things)
So sad
Unfortunately this is not unique or new. This has been happening for years throughout the US.
This is why health care for all or health care being a right will never work. Private companies competing for your health care dollars is the way to go!!!
This is the result of private health care what are you talking about
@@artisticagi uhhh Medi-Cal is public tax dollars, whatcha talking about Willis
Braindead take
CA has gone banana republic 😔
I am paying car insurance, but i rarely got accident, where’s my money, any pay back?! Its the same in healthcare, you pay for not utilizing or using much, but its there when you need it.
Unhoused .😂😂
Homeless is the word people with balls use
Americans need to take back this vountryx
Gdamned right we do!!
From Israel 😡
Yeah CC Health almost killed me. Thank you whistleblower ❤
What a crock.
It's not a surprised. Its simply just sad 😔
Because the government pays Low in reimbursement, this is what would happen with Medicare for all. The system is broken
You have to remember hospitals are running at a loss when bringing in capital, but I agree with the nurse, if there is a medical issue then the patient should be taken care of. This system reminds me of NHS over in the UK 🇬🇧 and how it’s broken, and everyday citizens suffer the most. It’s just not right
Wow . This is sick
Color me shocked 🙄
I believe her! ❤
where is the nursing board?!? this should be shut down!!!! How do they have theyre approvals?!? - an RN
They're advertising for it, it's their responsibility, sue them
This is disgraceful
Nurses like her saved my life for the love of God please pay attention help help help help help help the most vulnerable members of our society she is telling the absolute truth
Names and pictures of the board!!!! Otherwise there is no identity to hold accountable
This program needs to be overhauled. Having clinical and non-clinical "arms" can be confusing to both patients and medical staff. When you have untrained staff determining which is which is horrible.
this whole fast food pricing situation is truly no bueno :)
Man those people called me. I don’t think I’m high risk; idk how they got my number but I blocked them 😅. I’m a former nurse and don’t trust any one in the health system tbh.
You cannot cut corners in healthcare. It's negligent and dangerous. You can cause alot of fatalities and casualties.
Praying for protection of that whistle blower
Patients usually need both, you cant just separate them and when these ppl start getting fancy with healthcare thats when stuff goes bad and people die!!
The LAUSD is charging parents for not having kids go to their schools.
Hospitals assign nurses to units that they have no experience in, if you refuse , they fire you. Happened to me.
If a person's negligence led to multiple deaths, the tone of this story would've been a bit different.
Note to Gangs: Remember to from a corporation - that function was designed to protect you from consequence.
Greed
So much tax money goes to bullish•t we don’t need, want and in some cases harm us. Yet we have no voice.
So many things need to change
Blood on your hands 🩸
😡
😱 you better be careful. You can’t be saying people gave you stuff that you probably gave yourself. Did you research how you contract BV? Or the percentage of women who have BV? I’m just saying be careful you don’t get sued for defamation. I support you for real and I think it’s disgusting that he uses his clout to lure vulnerable women and exploit and expose them to make money off their story and uses it as a chance to get them loaded and sleep with them. He’s disgusting
I dont see the immigrants leaving American..maybe just Chicago state.. FJB
Unhoused😅
They been doing this forever. And all you people will do nothing about it.
Just get on here and gripe.
All about Greed. It's everywhere. Greed has reached sadist levels.🥀🤯🙏💖🌱🕯️🕯️🕯️
She will reap everything she sows all of them
So gov ain’t gonna fix this !!!
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health insurance in this company sucks to no end
Weaponized, terrorizing & illegal!
I would call the FBI.
Sounds like Obamacare 😱
I was just 5150
Rip whistle-blower
I want to know what happens to the thousands of dollars that I pay for health insurance when I don't go to the doctor for an entire year? I pay $1900 a month for a family plan we barley use. WHERE'S MY MONEY !!!! Why do they get to keep it all? Why can't we be reimbursed.
Lol well that's how insurance companies make money to pay for when you do need to go to doctor. If they reimbursed you they wouldn't have money to pay when a procedure happens.
Bedbound MEANS extra care is required. This reporting right tgere makes no sense. That label would not cause them to get only phone consult care. It would trigger extra care.
Marching the country right towards socialism
Put other managed care on this list. Surgical patient with pulmonary embolism..managed care tried to force DNR by withholding pain medication this particular rebab system has high % of deceased patients. Trying to force a patient on pain medications to sign a new form overriding current existing forms asking for resuscitation is illegal.sending patient to low level ER Without medical records..and just telling medical responders patient wS drug seeking..while patient was days out of major spinal fusion surgery. 7 levels. And with suspected PE WAS ALSO TERRIBLE MEDICAL CARE! The facility tried to get even with patient from complaining..
Sounds like they hired a bunch of tethers/his panics
Notice how she looks up for each question. It means she is not telling the truth
Singlepayer in the USA would just be more of this.
Sorry, this is not valid. There are many good healthcare programs, and ECM is one of the leading patient centered approached programs available.
There's always an overflow of pts with most programs. They almost never have enough staff/resources. Tax payers are paying for these free programs
Medical care is just one factor in the big picture of having good health. Housing, transportation, food security, safety, support, finances, domestic violence...etc and many other elements add up to good health. ECM programs holistically support patients on all said needs.
The program is good and what is also true is the way it is run in Contra Costa is a problem.
I’m not paying……😂
i had an ingrown hair surgery that i got knocked.out for 6.hours at kaiser where they wanted.me.to go to county i didnt want to know how i have metal.dector going off innthis lower area and radionfrequency detector that goes off in the same area and ididnt think of it at the time but 6 hours was along time to put me under . andever since now i have certain drivers blinding me with jigh beams crazy i document it.. hop3 everyone is careful and may good workers like the wimhistleblowers be more like her who care