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Tag Archives: NYS Dept. of Health
Shit from Albany
Speaking of “wrong” vendors—Medicaid dispatch appeared to be violating the vendors’ right to fair trade. One vendor was talking to his lawyer about filing RICO charges against Wayne Freeman, et al. RICO is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law. … Continue reading
Resume of an Activist
Anne C Woodlen Syracuse NY 13210 ribs2007@yahoo.com “Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, ‘How many positions did you hold,’ but rather, ‘How many people did you help?’” ―Thomas S. Monson In 2001 I began the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Mental Illness & Health, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, antidepressants, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, Citizens Review Board, citizenship, City of Syracuse, Crouse Hospital, David Sutkowy, depression, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DSS, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, HUD, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Services, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS DOH, NYS OMIG, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Office of Medicaid Inspector General, Onondaga County Legislature, Onondaga County New York, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse Police Dept., values, Visiting Nurses Association, VNA, Welfare
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Investigating the Investigators (Part I)
Catherine Scott, Acting Inspector General Office of the State Inspector General Empire State Plaza, Agency Building 2 16th Floor Albany, New York 12223 Re: NYS Dept. of Health, Central New York Regional Office, Long Term Care Unit 217 South … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, disability rights, Fraud, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged Catherine Scott, Central New York Regional Office, Gregory Allen, Karen Vendetti, Long Term Care Unit, Nancy Finnegan, Nursing Home Complaint Hotline, NY00122617, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS Inspector General, Oneida County, Rome Center, Rose Olivo, Stonehedge Nursing Home
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Curing Depression, and Ain’t Payback a Bitch?
Several hundred of you have been following my problem with the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA), so let’s use it as a teaching moment. Follow the bouncing activist to learn how to effectively complain. I wrote up the story of how the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Depression, disability, Fraud, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Power
Tagged Amor Bango, complaint, CQC, democracy, Dept. of Social Services, disability, disability rights, DOE, DOH, fair hearing, Gail Carmichael, Health, health care, home health care agency, Kate Rolf, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid Fraud Unit, Medical Answering Service, Nurse, NYS Commission on Quality of Care, NYS Dept. of Education, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, OMIG, Onondaga County Dept. of Social Services, Onondaga County New York, patients, poverty, power, problem solving, Sharon Cwikla, Visiting Nurse Association, VNA, Zachery Karmen
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What Gives You the Authority? (Part II)
Nine days later, I wake up to the realization that neither Greg Allen nor Notchaca has followed up, so I call Notchaca. She tells me that she called Heidi at DOH and Heidi said she would take care of it; she … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Fraud, Government Services, Medicaid, Poverty, Power
Tagged complaint, David Sutkowy, Dept. of Social Services, DOH, DSS, Freeman, Governance, government, Greg Allen, Independent Review Organization, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Services, Notchaca, NYS Dept. of Health, Occupy Everywhere, Onondaga County New York, poverty, power, Tim Perry-Coon, Wayne Freeman
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Noodling the DOH Budget (Part II)
(Continued from Part I, 10/04/11) So I am noodling the DOH budget, calling people up and asking “How much is the budget for the New York State Department of Health?” and I have now been referred to the Records Access … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care
Tagged $16 billion., Andrew Cuomo, budge, Budget Director Robert Megna, DOH, financial, Financial Plan Overview, FOIL, health care, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, New York, New York State Department of Health, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS Div of Budget
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“The Problem is the System that Dispenses the Services”
When last we met on “I Alone Am Left To Tell You” (http://annecwoodlen.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/i-alone-am-left-to-tell-you/) the problem was that I needed to go to the Emergency Dept. for what turned out to be an abscessed tooth but Medical Answering Services, the local … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Fraud, Government Services, Medicaid, Poverty, power wheelchairs
Tagged 911, ambulance, ambulette, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DOH, Emergency department, Emergency service, ER, Gregory Allen, health care, Mark Bertozzi, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical, Medical Answering Service, NYS Dept. of Health, Onondaga County New York, poverty, power, Tim Perry-Coon, Wayne Freeman
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A Distinct Possibility
If all the government bureaucrats in the Monroe County Department of Human Services, NYS Department of Health, and NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General do not get their heads out of the their collective butts and make something righteous happen for … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Fraud, Government Services, Medicaid, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged Dept. of Human Services, Dept. of Social Services, DHS, DSS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Monroe County, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS DOH, NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, OMIG, Wayne Freeman
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Zachary Karmen, DSS Chief Welfare Attorney (Retired) (Part I)
In October 2005, I received a letter illegally kicking me off Medicaid transportation, signed by Zachary Karmen, Chief Welfare Attorney of the Onondaga County Dept. of Social Services. That was the first I’d ever heard of Mr. Karmen. Medicaid transportation was, … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability rights, Fraud, Government Services, Medicaid, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged Chief Welfare Attorney, Commissioner of Social Services, David Sutkowy, Dept. of Social Services, disability, disability rights, Div. of Purchasing, DSS, fair hearing, Governance, Kathy Hart, Legal Aid, Legislature, Medicaid, Medicaid Director, Medicaid transportation, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, NYS Office of the Welfare Inspector General, OMIG, Onondaga County, Onondaga County New York, OWIG, poverty, power, problem solving, Russell Maxwell, values, Wayne Freeman, Zachary Karmen
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