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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2076)	6/30/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Year 2000 and Medicare My husband, who is deaf and just had a cochear implant, sent me this posting from his CI newsgroup. VERY interesting. Will post more if I get it. Forwarded message: > To: CI@YORKU.CA > > This for the manufs as well as others. > > Medicare called me yesterday to announce that all systems changes are shut > down until at least April of the year 2000. This is because of the Federal > govt's problems in getting their computers Year 2000 compliant. > > Routine fee schedule updates will continue until October 1999, and then will > be indefinitely postponed. > > Any changes to Medicare payment for cochlear implants through "inherent > reasonableness" or any other means are likely to be postponed as well through > 2000. > Medicare will not confirm this until later in the week. However, it appears > all Balanced Budget Act (BBA) regulations are on hold. > > For those who have posted that an upwards correction in CI Medicare payments > was forthcoming, it appears that may be a ways off, if at all. Likewise, the > payment should not be decreased for some time. > > Mark Hobratschk > > "Never slander a man to his employer"--Proverbs 30:10