Tag Archives: Medical ID theft

Data breach

February 14, 2010 – 1:53 pm

Data breach at AvMed makes three health insurer data breaches in three months
If the question is when will health care insurers begin protecting their customers’ identities, health information and financial information, in light of the most recent insurer data breach, the answer has to be “when pigs fly.”
AvMed began sending out notifications this week of [...]

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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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LIfeLock: Data breach by federal court during ID theft investigation

March 24, 2009 – 9:45 am

Irony: (noun) an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected
A Maryland federal court–in the course of a medical identity theft investigation–inadvertently published on the Internet the names, birthdates, and health care policy numbers of 226 people. Ninety-two Social Security numbers were also included it the publicly accessible information.
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Medical ID theft: the crime that can leave you dead-broke

November 20, 2008 – 11:58 am

It’s ironic that the most dangerous identity theft is also the one people know the least about. Mention identity theft, and what usually comes to mind is someone having opened a credit card account in someone else’s name. And, though financial identity theft is more common than medical identity theft, the biggest difference is that [...]

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Congress may provide medical ID theft protection in 2009; Life Lock can help protect you now

October 17, 2008 – 8:00 am

There are very few concrete facts available on medical identity theft, but is known is frightening, frustrating, life threatening and an enormous drain on the nation’s health care system.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Care Information Technology sponsored the first ever Medical Identity Theft Town Hall this week in Washington, DC.  Because there [...]

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