Medicare Payments Stopped in Some Western States

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The Oregonian

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A Y2K problem at a small Chicago bank has snagged electronic Medicare payments to hospitals and other health care providers in at least eight states, including Oregon, Washington and California.

The glitch, which occurred this week at Highland Community Bank, is causing payment delays of up to a day and leaving some Oregon hospitals temporarily unable to access their newly deposited funds.

Federal regulators in December had declared nearly 100 percent of the nation's banks, including Highland Community Bank, to be Y2K-compliant. The bank's problem unfolded the same day regulators declared that "no significant disruptions resulting from the century date change have been detected."

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It does say that it is a Y2K glitch, and the article notes that the problems is with the bank -- not with the rest of the payment system (which was suspected to be in relatively poor shape).

-- rocky (rknolls@no.spam), January 07, 2000


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