In mid-June, WSB-TV news (Atlanta) reported that an elderly woman was mistakenly declared dead by Medicare and left without coverage!
Wrong, Medicare. She was very much alive and interviewed by the Atlanta media outlet.
The TV news presenters introduced the segment: “An 88-year-old Cobb County woman should be recovering right now in a rehab facility, after a hospital stay for heart problems. But instead her Medicare coverage has been cancelled because Medicare thinks she’s DEAD.”
The result was that she couldn’t get the care she needed right then.
The TV news reporter said that someone typed “deceased” into her medical records instead of “discharged”.
Her daughter said the results since have been “an avalanche of chaos”.
“I am alive, very much,” the 88-year-old woman told WSB-TV news.
Hellbound and Down 