Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Nice Hospital Toni

  • The Cook County Health and Hospitals System lost an estimated $165 million or more in potential revenue over the past three years due to lax clerical procedures and employee errors, records and interviews show.

    Cook County Inspector General Patrick Blanchard attributed the hospitals’ losses to widespread issues in the system’s bureaucracy — from mistakes during patient scheduling and registration to billing lapses. In a 10-page report, Blanchard said his office interviewed hospital staffers who suggested there are “a significant number of registration clerks, coders, and billers who do not possess adequate self-motivation or the required skill sets and knowledge base” to do their jobs.
Unmotivated and un-knowledgeable employees in Cook County? Just how far up the ladder does this incompetence go?

And that $165 million? That is far more than the soda tax would have brought in making us wonder (once again) why there was ever a need for it in the first place.

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43 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It all balances out with the property taxes... and the likely people whom benefit are the poor. It's gonna work out

5/16/2018 12:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And that $165 million? That is far more than the soda tax would have brought in making us wonder (once again) why there was ever a need for it in the first place.

Well, you see SCC, all those unmotivated and sub-moronic excuses for protoplasm have to be employed SOMEPLACE. Might as well be as far away from Prickwrinkle where they can't do any harm... If they're not employed, Queeny doesn't get re-elected, Foxx gets the boot, and the whole house of cards falls down because the unemployed masses will start making waves about their lot in life, how Queeny doesn't care... and so on...

So it's pretty clear - the Soda Tax was there to prop up the losses caused by the Prickwrinkle unmotivated and sub-moronic patronage jobs...

It's the Chicago Way!

5/16/2018 12:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I sure no one is going to get fired. Keep voting DemocRATS!

5/16/2018 12:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Unmotivated, and unskilled employees, let me take a guess, the hospital has affirmative action hiring of folks of color.

5/16/2018 12:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let’s not forget the losses that the place literally BLEEDS on the uninsured. We’re in free-fall.

5/16/2018 01:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Stop catering to people who live outside Cook County. Everyone needs to pay something with exception of Grandma age 65 and older. Even babies parents have to fork over something. Like my mother always told us girls, unless your willing to pay for the rest of your life, keep your legs closed! That165 million could have been better spent on our pension than on a bunch of ne’er do wells. Yes, I have zero empathy.

5/16/2018 01:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another word for this, affirmative action, cook county style. Add to the fact that they don't even send bills to shitheads who get shot up. They are using euphemisms for lazy pieces of shit who are fucking stupid.

5/16/2018 02:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

how many times has this song and dance played out? catching one of these fuckers sleeping on the job. then any mention of discipline gets the i'm gonna sue you retort.
this being printed by both the fib and slum in rare moments of pseudo journalistic integrity. if only this was done to the powers that be running this whole state into the ground. this bullshit just keeps accelerating.

5/16/2018 04:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's quite a Chunk of Change there Prickdingle....What say YOU??????.....Hmmmmmmmmm?????

5/16/2018 06:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How much do all the "make work" positions cost the city/county? You know, the assistants assistant that only shows up on payday?

J.J.

5/16/2018 06:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But that hospital is the "free" hospital in the city? Why it has even a clinic for low or no income people too.

5/16/2018 06:33:00 AM  
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...

Gee. I wonder how they got their jobs.

5/16/2018 06:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Taxwinkle will be hiring 15 new clouted employees to ass in collecting the lost monies.

5/16/2018 07:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And if you like that one, try this one:

http://www.cwbchicago.com/2018/05/report-county-leader-fights-juvenile.html

This makes my blood boil. Toni is nothing but an Alinsky-ite who is trying to destroy the country from within.

When our elected leaders care more about juvenile criminals than they do about law-abiding, tax-paying citizens, THIS COUNTY IS DONE.

5/16/2018 07:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who actually hired these people? Someone signed the paperwork. Start there and keep investigating.

5/16/2018 07:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just be glad you're not receiving care there.

5/16/2018 07:30:00 AM  
Blogger chitownsfinest said...

Classic...

5/16/2018 07:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...



Would've been cheaper to warehouse the staff and patients in prison.


5/16/2018 07:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Government can't do anything right, let alone efficiently. Garbage in, garbage out. What else would you expect?

5/16/2018 07:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Report clearly flags fact that many hospital insurance billing staff are grossly incompetent, obviously inept, and resolutely unwilling to learn to properly do their job, with net result being the loss of $165 million in lost billings. It sucks to be a tax-payer in Cook County; we're just suckers here. I think it's impossible to be fired for incompetency in Cook County governmental agencies, except for political payback reasons, and patronage hires run amok.

Preckwinkle continually panders to her poorly-educated, poorly socialized under-class constituents. We're drowning here in Cook County/Chicago in the morass of political correctness, social-welfare entitlements, and tacitly-encouraged flourishing unlawful behavior (whether white-collar corruption or violent street-crime).

There's a new report out today, flagging Chicago as the MOST CORRUPT CITY IN USA, a designation Chicago richly deserves.

5/16/2018 08:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

High School Dropout's doing Accounting ?

5/16/2018 08:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

(OT) CPD corrects official narrative of lakefront attack that injured suburban man

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/cpd-corrects-official-narrative-of-lakefront-attack-that-injured-suburban-man/

How about correcting it and telling the truth Chicago has a problem a black problem it is not racist when it is real, why are so many black men totally out of control and Lawless? Look no further than the elect Democrats who have bastardized police officers disobeyed federal laws municipal law thugs and illegal criminals all run free! It is odd that the copper who brought the people escorted him to the hospital did not do a report was he advised or she advised by someone from above not to do the report? If so it definitely would not surprise any working coppers that whoever the boss was did not make the report or allow the report to be made would have to be a merit boss that would do something like this!

5/16/2018 08:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you ever get bored, look at the top highest paid employees for CCH system - most are nurses who are "putting in" 60+ hours of OT a week and make more than way qualified physicians. I'm sure that's a *totally legit* number of OT hours.

5/16/2018 09:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Patronage at its finest

5/16/2018 09:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow shocking. But they need more jobs, that’s the problem? No this is the problem, unskilled, not motivated.

5/16/2018 09:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

like the post office and the cta. Both agency s heavy in affirmative hiring. Both lost millions to mismanagement and buddy system. CPD heading that way now. Like the city likes to say,"THE PRIVATE SECTOR DOESN T ALLOW THAT". So why can they hire the best while we hire clout heavy and people the right color. the destruction of ROME( CHICAGO), LIBERALISM..

5/16/2018 09:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does that make them qualified for merit sergeant or detective ?🤔

5/16/2018 10:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The willful, wanton and profligate
HEMORRHAGING of taxpayer treasure
as reward for a bunch of political
ass-sitters kicking back to THE party?

M/Fers OUGHT to hang for this shit.

Peel that funky-assed onion.

The closer you get to the core, the worst it stinks
and the more your eyes water at what you're seeing.

And the media feigns genuine ignorance
and spills barrels of ink/burns bales
of newsprint about people leaving
Chicago.


5/16/2018 11:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So part of the problem has been exposed, so what--- absolutely nothing will be done to the existing slobs not doing their jobs!

This will be an excuse to hire MORE incompetents to assist the existing incompetents!

Never ending cycle-- the added bunch will do less since they will claim they are not trained and the trainers do not know how to do the job either!

Taxwinrinkle will need more money to pay additional staff that are not doing anything!

Oh well, the CROOK County way..

5/16/2018 12:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is real money. What's amazing was the reaction of the commissioners none of them really cared except Morrison. It was as though oh that's all.

5/16/2018 01:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OFF TOPIC, but I think I have a way to solve all the BS across the city, county and state. All we have to do is implement a fingerprint system for voters, so nobody votes more than one time. We can use the live scan system and at the same time clear up a lot of warrants on election day! Or we can see if we can use Disney's System because this place is an amusement park with the BS that goes on day in and day out and they raise taxes and we go deeper in the hole.....because......we put AAAHOLE democ"RATS" in office perpetually......the definition of insanity....doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result!!!!

5/16/2018 01:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And when they talk about “revenue” they mean Govmint funding.
There isn’t an Accounts Receivable Dept in CCH and there hasn’t been since 1963.
Govmint money comes in and it goes straight to the padded payroll checkbook.
No end of the month surplus.
So if they’re short, they’re short taxpayer money - so a 2018 tax increase is inevitable.

Nobody cares l...and to prove it look at the last election numbers and where they came from...the lakefront.
Idiots re-elected her.
High crime and high taxes is what PrickWanker is all about, owkay.

The only solution to the entire Cook County corruption machine is Federal receivership and a full cleansing of incompetent (95%) management.
How unfortunate but not surprising that this deficit comes after the election.
Not that it would much matter, plenty of clueless idiots still voted Democrat.
They all belong in jail or the unemployment line.

5/16/2018 03:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just look at the hospital employee who stole personnel records from the hospitals data base and burglarized the homes of staff members. What's to say that shit can't happen here? Some schmuck hacks the computer database of patients and steals classified/personal data to commit identity theft and God knows what else. Encrypted/secure? My ass it is!!!!

5/16/2018 03:38:00 PM  
Blogger Chip Bagg said...

now just where could all that money have gone???

5/16/2018 03:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Usually clout and "friends"

This what happens when you hire based on "friends" and not competency.

Felons, ex-cons, incompetents, idiots, fake degrees, answers to tests, no shows, paid when not even at work, double dipping, Top positions with fake degrees or degrees from Channel 26 schools, hiding out at the CTA depots playing cards or at the Offtrack betting/Casino instead of work, etc.

This is how Chicago has received top honor's in corruption.

This disgusting Banana Republic needs to be drained and fast!

5/16/2018 04:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Merit hiring, we know how that merit thing works

5/16/2018 04:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Could the Justice Dept. please come to Chicago the city is being molested by democrats. ♠️

5/16/2018 06:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OFF TOPIC, but I think I have a way to solve all the BS across the city, county and state. All we have to do is implement a fingerprint system for voters, so nobody votes more than one time. We can use the live scan system and at the same time clear up a lot of warrants on election day! Or we can see if we can use Disney's System because this place is an amusement park with the BS that goes on day in and day out and they raise taxes and we go deeper in the hole.....because......we put AAAHOLE democ"RATS" in office perpetually......the definition of insanity....doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result!!!!

5/16/2018 01:32:00 PM


Okay, all intended sarcasm and silliness aside, here are the benefits/detrements imbued within your idea:

Benefits:

1. To work, proof of citizenship would be absolutely required; thus, this eliminates a percentage of registered voters too tempting to estimate, but definable by the conclusion of the process neccessary to purge the regostered voter database of ineligible, by absence of citizenship, non citizens presently registered.

2. To work, the citizens seeking to register to vote must present themselves, in person, aka, in the flesh, aka, the living flesh, for the fingerprinting procedure to be valid. This, then, would eliminate those pesky voting from the grave voters.

3. Thus, to work, all citizens seeking to enjoy their right to vote would have to provide proofs of citizenship, residency, and age, then proceed to be fingerprinted, (or, as you stated, fingerprint scanned). This suggested required process is where the detrements begin......

Detrements:

1. Who the fuck in their right mind is gonna choose to submit to being fingerprinted by this fucking city's, county's, or state's government mental deficient employees?

2. I rest my case.

5/16/2018 08:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Could the Justice Dept. please come to Chicago the city is being molested by democrats. ♠️

5/16/2018 06:02:00 PM


The mid term national elections will determine if this will ever occur.

Provide our President with a bullshitterproof House and Senate, a Congress worthy of our MAGA President, so the pace of draining that swamp can be accelerated, and the next 2 years, minimum, will be astounding, both to behold and to experience.

Recall the quote, spoken by the character Conan, the Barbarian, in the original movie of the same name.......you know which one.....

MAGA

5/16/2018 09:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

s(he) has an answer for everything, doesn't she? Not good ones, but an answer nonetheless. She really made a good career for herself with her only qualification being that she's "not Todd". I actually miss that little goofball.

5/17/2018 08:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Truly we're living in a Banana Republic. When an ex-con earns $75,000/year as a tow-truck operator, with benefits, with zero education beyond perhaps a CPS GED and his prison record, when said ex-con then proceeds to extort cash-payments from tourists whose cars he's hooked and towed elsewhere for his personal extortion-business, then you know that there are ZERO BENCHMARK EXPECTATIONS and ZERO OVERSIGHT regarding employee performance.

5/17/2018 09:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a common problem for all hospitals, not just cook county. Not excusing it but it is not unique to Cook County.

5/17/2018 11:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

how much went into taxwinkle's campaign fund?

5/18/2018 10:59:00 AM  

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