Ms. Melissa Moon
Corporations Counsel
State of California,
Department of Corporations
Health Plan Division
320 West 4th Street, Suite 750
Los Angeles, CA 90013-3001
(213) 576-7500

Dear Ms. Moon:

I am now in receipt of your most recent letter (June 24, 1999).

Apparently someone from you office has contacted on of my wife's plan's carriers without the completion of Authorization for Release of Medical Records, which is against State regulation, indicating to me again behind-the-scenes back door operation by DOC public servants.  (See enclosed letter and reply to Ms. Debbie Fermanian at CareAmerica.)  It seems to me that whether or not I sign the enclosed documents authorizing the release of medical information, certain individuals within the DOC feel it is within their province to do as they wish.  As you know, from my many letters to you, this frightens me to think that the regulatory agency who my wife must depend for honest care, might be in cahoots with those it oversees, especially in light of the fact that the DOC hires high ranking officers to serve as public servants from known offending companies such as Maxicare of California, Inc.!

Can we remedy this internal problem before we move further?

Thank you for your direct response this time and your attempt to clarify the confusion resulting from the proliferation of RFAs generated.
 
Respectfully yours,

__________________________________
Joel E. Webb - Conservator
910-B 20th Street,
Santa Monica, CA 90403
 

copies to:
Acting Commissioner William Kenefick, Department of Corporations, State of California
Mr. Brian A. Thompson, Chief Deputy Commissioner, Department of Corporations
Ms. Francine Woods, Department of Corporations, Ombudsperson
Governor Gray Davis
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman
State Senator Tom Hayden
Representative Sheila James Kuehl
Donna M. Campbell, Deputy Secretary and General Counsel, Business, Transportation and Housing Agency