Robert Siciliano writes: Private investigator William Cobra Staubs, was doing some dumpster diving conducting some “research” this week and happened upon a big box of discarded medical files and applications tossed there by what appears to be a Blue Cross Blue Shield agent who didn’t need them any longer. He found over 30 documents and…
Category: Health Data
PA: Patient contacts lawyer after protected health information compromised
Denise Allabaugh reports: Hazleton resident Shannon Konopinski worries her personal health information and family medical history could end up on the Internet and she has contacted lawyers. She is upset about a letter she received stating that a former Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center physician sent her protected health information to his home e-mail in…
CO: Medical marijuana records found near Dumpster (update 2)
Christina Dickinson and Dave Delozier report: It was the last thing Harold Morton expected to find while taking some recyclables out to the alley behind his home. When he walked past a Dumpster, he saw it in a cardboard box: a thick blue binder. “I picked the book up and I opened it and right…
CO: Medical marijuana records found near Dumpster (update3)
Christina Dickinson and Dave Delozier report: It was the last thing Harold Morton expected to find while taking some recyclables out to the alley behind his home. When he walked past a Dumpster, he saw it in a cardboard box: a thick blue binder. “I picked the book up and I opened it and right…
IN: Man billed $50,000 for medical ID theft
Kendra Yagow reports: Deaconess Hospital is out $50,000 in what authorities are calling a case of identity theft. Evansville Police were received a call on Monday after a hospital worker reported a patient received services, but it was his brother who got the bill, and he doesn’t even live in Indiana. […] Police don’t know…
Geisinger informs patients of disclosure of protected health information
Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System has posted the following announcement to their site: In accordance with Geisinger Health System policy and applicable federal regulations, Geisinger Health System has notified approximately 2,928 patients that some of their Protected Health Information (PHI) has been disclosed in an unauthorized manner. On November 6, 2010, Geisinger became aware that on…