A computer stolen from the home office of a Reid Hospital employee in early April may have contained files with personally identifiable information on approximately 20,000 Reid patients.
Craig Kinyon, Reid president/CEO, said the computer was password protected and was one of numerous items stolen in the break-in, which indicates the information was not the target of the thieves.
The information included reports on some Medicaid and some Medicare patients who received services from 1999 to 2008. These reports include patient names and Social Security numbers or Medicare numbers.
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