WASHINGTON — A 62-year-old Las Vegas resident has been hit with the most expensive single ObamaCare glitch yet🌊 — nearly $460,0༺00 in medical bills with more on the way.
A malfunction in Nevada🎃’s state-run exchange left Larry Basich without insurance, 🀅even though he signed up in November and paid his premiums as directed.
He suffered a heart attack and underwent a triple bypass on Jan. 3 — but his 🍬insurance coverage had mysteriously vanished.
Now Basich, the Nevada Health﷽ Link exchange and two insurance companies are battling over who’s going to pick up the tab.
“I got my first bill before I got out of the hospital,” Basich told The Post. “I was an e🥂motional, mental and physical wreck.”
He was baffled by recent comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that all the ObaꦇmaCare horror stories were untrue.
“What happened to me is not a lie, so I ꧑don’t know what he was talking a🐈bout,” said Basich, who has asked Reid’s office for help.
Basich’s predicament, first reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has only got💯ten w꧒orse.
“I’ve gotten my first final noꦑtice that said if I didn’t pay, they were going to send it to a collection agency,” he said.
It’s not in dispute that Basich selected a UnitedHealthcare plan, 💟paid his $160 premium, and Nevada Health Link took the money on Nov. 21 — more than a month before the Jan. 1 deadline.
Bu💯t the exchange assigned Basich to the wrong insurance company, Nevada Health CO-OP.
That company’s CEO said it wasn’t honoring Basich’s coverage because he ⛎hadn’t chosen N꧑evada Health when signing up.
D𝕴espite his repea꧂ted pleas to Xerox, the contractor that built and runs Nevada Health Link, his medical bills keep mounting.
Tamar Burch, an insurance broker assisting Basich, said Xerox seemed more interested in lawyering up 𒆙for a fight than fixing the mess.
Xerox insists it is working to resolve the standoꦐff.