Will the cold snap last all weekend. And the bar thats pairing Girl Scout Cookies with cold beer. Your news starts now. And we begin with a Montgomery County School Bus Driver accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with two 11yearold students. And im Sarah Simmons in for tony. And im shawn yancy. Police arrest the driver today. Now they want to know if there are more victims out there. And fox5 tisha lewis is live me concernsing ton with the latest. Tisha. Elwell, shawn, sarah, the special Victims Investigations Division did arrest 59yearold salvador rodriguez he was employed as montgomery countsy public School Bus Driver and inappropriate contact occurred on two students that attend at rockville elementary school. He was placed on administrative leave as soon as the School District learned of the allegations. They began their investigation two weeks ago and the incidents reportedly year. And rodriguezs bus route includes rockville, new port middle and Albert Einstein hospital.
There are a couple of areas that we are clear we need to update. One is the concept of an essential Community Provider. Thats not something that we were really looking at before. Are those now included in your networks theres also just issues in the new environment. Are we applying it to all man e managed care. Do you go out to ppos . Do you go out to others, as well chlts were having weekly calls. In fact, our next one is thursday, july 24 00th at 130 p. M. Mark it on your calendars. Be there. Weve received comments from about 30 different i. Groups so far. Were going to go and see where we need to update our model. This is always going to be our number one point. We dont want it one size fits all, federal government comes 234 and this is the time and distance for each type of provider. I dont know about you, but wyoming is just a tad different than los angeles. What are the standards . What about certain populations . As has been braugts up, we need to balance. Theres no sense going
Coverage for example in one market where we are the narrower provider we found they had no access to pet scans. Another glitch we found as their exclusive Network Provider they had not contracted with any Lamp Services or radiation therapy. We can provide these services but frankly getting Outpatient Lab testing at your hospital may not be as convenient as some of the labs that are available with better parking and hours. Finally id like to reemphasize the reality of the marketplace is that price dominates. Premiums is what people are most likely to look at. Those with low income still leave outofpocket medical expenses that are unaffordable below this operation. As a result, even modest out pocket costs create affordability programs. This is from one of our markets. A married couple. Income 48,000 a year. They chose a bronze plan. Their premium is subsidized. They have a 3,600 deductible and a 12,000 potential outofpocket maximum. If one of this group needed a jant re placement or hth
That somebody can be get to in tough numbers and types in a reasonable amount of team states can look at the networks to make sure that that definition of reasonable is reasonable. When you look at the time it takes people to get to them, any waiting periods, any distance issues that you make sure that everybody can get to somebody in a sufficient way. If not, if there is an insufficient network the carrier makes sure the patient can go to another doctor or provider and that they would be not charged more for going to them. They require the carriers to file an access plan with the commissioner prior to offering the new managed care plan. What goes in that is a description of the network and also say how they are going to monitor the network on an ongoing basis. What their egregious procedures will be if somebody has a problem or question about the network. Notification. How do they notify if theres a change. Also, the continuity of care if somebody is dropped how are you going to make
International uproar over reports the u. S. Spied on germanys chancellor is not going away. There are claims president obama knew about the phone taps and approved them the white house says it is not true. We are getting reports that the eavesdropping started in 2002, before Angela Merkel was elected. This morning senator Jeanne Shaheen called on the nsa to come clear on the surveillance program. I think the revelations from Edward Snowden, and secrets that are revealed are doing damage to our bilateral relationships with germany, mexico and other countries where the suggestion is that weve lisped in listened in. I think we have repair work to do and hard questions it ask of the nsa about what is happening in the program. Its a different view from the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee. Congressman peter king says america should stop apologising for the nas. The reality is the nsa saved thousands of lives not just the United States, but france, germany and throughout eur