Dave Muoio reports:
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case on whether a Federally Qualified Health Center is immune from liability over a former patient’s stolen personally identifying information (PII).
The class-action lawsuit stemmed from a patient who received care and provided that information to Sandhills Medical Foundation, an FQHC, in 2018.
The provider’s third-party computer system was hit with a cyberattack in late 2020 in which the plaintiff’s PII, but not her protected health information (PHI), was stolen and used to apply for a loan.
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