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Mehmet Oz: “Medicare's billing system, which many of your relatives are…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 38:19

But I think it's the first step of a much larger national opportunity to fix how data flows. And one bit more bit on this Medicare. Medicare's billing system, which many of your relatives are using, was a 1979 era COBOL based system. I don't even have engineers who know how to use that system. And so if you're going to really use cloud based tools, if you want to use technology to help Americans connect better with the health care system, you have to update them. (38:19–38:28)

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Asserts that Medicare's billing system is based on a 1979 COBOL system.

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