Medical ID theft

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Doctors can now get help to recover from identity theft

December 5, 2011 – 9:30 am

There’s more than one victim of identity theft when a patient’s information is stolen at a doctor’s office. The doctor is also a victim, and until now, doctor’s offices have faced damage to their financial integrity and bad debt in the wake of incidents of identity theft. In addition to patient information, thieves also steal [...]

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Medical identity theft increasing – and it will get worse, experts say

October 17, 2011 – 8:34 am

According to recent reports, one-third of health care organizations, which includes physicians’ practices, insurers and pharmacies, have caught someone using the identity of another person in order to obtain services.
Although medical identity theft represents only a small portion of the overall among of reported identity thefts, it is still the fastest-growing segment.
One of the [...]

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Guard your medical insurance info with your life

September 16, 2011 – 8:11 am

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Medical fraud leads to arrest of two Arizona residents

October 29, 2010 – 7:41 am

The Arizona Department of Insurance Fraud Unit has busted a suspected medical identity theft ring in Phoenix, Ariz.
Gevorg Melkonyan and Elina Arutynova have been charged for their alleged role in stealing the medical identity of 128 Arizona patients and falsely billing insurance companies for medical serves never provided, totaling more than $600,000. The duo used [...]

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Council attempts to stop FTC-proposed law

September 2, 2010 – 8:05 am

The Council of Medical Societies has filed a motion to intervene in a pending case to prevent the Federal Trade Commission from applying the red flags identity theft rule to doctors.
The regulation requires entities that regularly extend credit to establish formal policies for detecting and preventing identity theft. The council said compliance with the rule [...]

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ID thief used stolen identities for penis enlargement, breast implant surgeries.

August 13, 2009 – 11:03 am

I’ve written before about female ID thieves who stole identities to pay for breast augmentations, liposuctions and nose jobs, and I’ve always privately cringed to think women are so vain or feel so pressured to conform to society’s standards of beauty that they’d resort to ID theft.
Now, thanks to Jose Amid Juarbe, of Philadelphia, I [...]

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Medical ID theft alert: Baptist Medical Center patients’ records found in public parking lot and county dump

June 22, 2009 – 12:52 pm

Ever try to get copies of your medical records? Maybe it takes a week. Maybe it costs a small fortune. You can forget about them sending them to you, or even to another doctor. In most cases you’ll have to pick them up and deliver them yourself.
Well, patients from Baptist Medical Center in Montgomery, AL [...]

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LifeLock review: 100,000 patients at risk of credit or medical identity theft after records stolen

April 13, 2009 – 2:41 pm

You have to wonder how it could happen. How do records from a medical practice disappear between the doctors’ office and the storage facility?
With any luck, the Salisbury MD police might be able to provide an answer someday, but for the 100,000 patients who’ve visited Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates in Salisbury MD, there are bigger things [...]

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Kaiser Permanente employees fired for “Octomom” data breach

April 2, 2009 – 11:40 am

Albert Einstein said curiosity is more important that intelligence, but apparently 23 employees at Kaiser Permanente got that backwards.

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