UnitedHealth's Hawaii operation under monitored "Corrective Action Plan" since April 2010

UnitedHealth Group's Hawaii operation has been under a DHS-imposed and monitored "Corrective Action Plan" (CAP) since April 2010.  The following was contained in an email I received from CMS on October 20, responding to a complaint I had filed earlier.

CMS and DHS reviewed your September 9, 2010 complaint about Evercare and the lack of oversight by DHS‐Med‐Quest (MQD) Division. You have reported that Evercare is out of compliance with CFR 438, subpart F: Sec 438.400.438.410 in meeting the needs of your daughter, Hannah Harrison. In reviewing your complaint the Med‐QUEST Division (MQD) found that Evercare is out of compliance with some of the required timeframes for both Notice of Adverse Action (NOA) and processing of appeals. MQD identified on April 5, 2010 that Evercare was not consistently compliant with both timeframe and required information for NOA as well as grievance and appeal regulations. MQD placed Evercare under a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) in April 2010 to assure they are meeting the required timeframes. CMS has assurance that MDQ continues to monitor Evercare in its CAP to assure they are meeting the required timeframes.

Apparently, at some point in time prior to April, federal Medicaid regulators and Hawaii DHS agreed that Evercare (UnitedHealth) had violated my daughter's legal rights.

The obvious question is how many of the other twenty thousand or so medically needy people enrolled under Evercare also had their rights violated? 

And why haven't any of us been notified officially?

In a related issue, CMS told me on May 24 that MedQuest told them Evercare had not denied any services for Hannah, and there were no outstanding complaints.  

All I could do was respond that I had a record of 33 complaint emails I had sent to Evercare over denied services and sixteen emails directly to Patti Bazin.  One of the biggest outstanding issues, I said in my email to CMS, was Evercare's refusal to follow medical recommendations for how to teach Hannah to talk with us using assistive technology.

I didn't have a chance to respond to the October 20 news that Medquest once again was telling federal regulators there were no outstanding complaints for Hannah until November 1. I reported to CMS that it appeared the reports they were receiving from DHS regarding Evercare's adherence to the specified timeframes could be in error.  I had emailed Patti Bazin on June 30 that Evercare had never responded to prescriptions received for medically necessary services received on May 21.  Emails I received from Bazin as recently as October 12 consistently ignored Evercare's failure to approve therapy that would teach my daughter how to talk.

The public deserves to know about this so-called Corrective Action Plan.  The elderly and disabled adults as well as children who have had their rights violated deserve to know.  If the state manages to keep losing my complaints, knowing I blog about it, who else's complaints have disappeared?