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Article #2283Re: Borrowed records from Revenue Canada
From: mberkley
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1986 04:10
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1986 04:10
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In article <201@spectrix.UUCP> clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
>1) Catastrophic OHIP data processing oversight:
> Dear <account holder>
> Our records indicate that you, or members of your family
> [remember OHIP numbers are for whole families, not individuals]
> saw the following doctors on the following dates:
> Dr A, <date>
> Dr B, <date>
I used to work for the auditor of one of the provincial
medical plans, and they had a similar program. Every month
they would send out these auditing letters. They decided to
expand the audit one year, but slightly change the letters.
The new program printed out the subscriber's name, address,
and medical claims on a standard form that would be heat
sealed and mailed.
The auditor was very picky (a good trait for auditors), so
he had us check out the first batch, one more time, before
it was mailed. We discovered that the programmer had somehow
managed to print out the name and claims of one subscriber,
and then the address for the next subscriber.
Don't ask me how he managed to do it, but I'm sure glad that
we checked!
Mike Berkley, Department of Computing Services, University of Waterloo
EAN: mberkley@dcsu.waterloo.cdn
UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,utcsri,utzoo}!watmath!watdcsu!mberkley
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!mberkley From: mberkley@watdcsu.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: Borrowed records from Revenue Canada Message-ID: <2805@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 23:10:55 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.2805 Posted: Wed Nov 26 23:10:55 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Nov-86 06:34:09 EST References: <623@water.UUCP> <192@spectrix.UUCP> <274@cognos.UUCP> <201@spectrix.UUCP> Reply-To: mberkley@watdcsu.UUCP (J.M.Berkley - Computing Services) Distribution: can Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 30