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This morning pharmacy claims processor Prescription Solutions couldn't adjudicate claims. They're big. PacifiCare, nation's 4th largest HMO, uses them as do many others. Call to them got the answer that they switched over to their hopefully Y2K compliant system and that it didn't work! Down for 3 hours. Nightmare in my little pharmacy. Please ask your benefits provider which of the 200 pharmacy claims processors it uses and then check in at nhin.com to see if they're compliant. If not ask why not. Believe me, the dispensing will stop when the payments stop. I already have an expensive hobby. Carlos

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), May 11, 1999

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well carlos, actually the more small problems there are now, hopefully the more that people will stock up now rather than wait until december and jam up the works then.

-- jocelyne slough (jonslough@tln.net), May 11, 1999.

That's quite an eye-opener. http://www.nhin.com/nhin/y2k/1-proc.asp

143 claims processors listed, only 39 of them have agreed to participate in Y2K testing by NHIN.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), May 11, 1999.


Tom:

Whats scary is that Prescripton Solutions is one of the 39.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), May 12, 1999.


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