This is a follow-up on a story covered previously.
A former Cedars-Sinai Medical Center employee was sentenced to four years, eight months in prison after pleading guilty today to stealing patient information to defraud insurance companies of $354,000.
The hospital had sent letters in December to more than 1,000 patients, warning them that their personal information had been found during a search of the home of James Allen Wilson, who worked in the billing department between 2003 and 2007.
Wilson was charged with using the information of 12 of the victims, all of them Los Angeles Unified School District employees who had filed workers’ compensation claims, to bill insurance companies more than $1.3 million for medical treatment that was never provided.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.