Tom Moor reports:
An agent with the Indiana attorney general’s office removed 21 boxes of medical records from a downtown office building Friday that contain the personal information of hundreds of local people.
The boxes, consisting of thousands of sheets of paper, contain patients’ Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, diagnoses and prescriptions.
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Although the records appeared to be locked safely in a storage closet in the basement of the building, it appears the medical practice that was in the building years ago moved out and left them.
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It appears from several of the medical records that a man named Dr. Armand J. Rigaux owned the business, called Family Medicine of Michiana or Health Designs Inc. The last date included in most of the paperwork is 1993.
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In a story printed in 1998 by MD Compliance Alert, it was reported that Rigaux sold his practice in 1993 to Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center and formed SmartCare and Explorer Healthcare Inc., a company that places physicians in permanent and temporary positions known as locum tenens placements throughout the United States.
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