Today’s St. Petersburg Times has an editorial about a case previously covered here. They write: Samantha Burton wanted to make her own decisions about her obstetrical care, but the state of Florida wouldn’t let her. Claiming it was protecting her fetus, the state took away her rights as a patient and a citizen and made…
Category: Health Data
Owner of DME storefront charged with health care fraud, ID theft
A federal grand jury has returned a 14-count superseding indictment charging Mento Nnana Kaluanya with health care fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from a $3.9 million health care fraud scheme, United States Attorney Tim Johnson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced today. Kaluanya, 50, a Texas resident born in the Federal Republic of…
UK: 5,400 medical files stolen in Downpatrick break-in
Some might not consider this a breach because of the encryption: Medical records of 5,400 patients have been stolen from a doctors’ surgery in Downpatrick. The break-in happened at the surgery of Drs Hannah and McGoldrick at Pound Lane over the Christmas period. They were in two computer hard disk drives and several DVDs containing…
UK: 5,400 medical files stolen in Downpatrick break-in
Some might not consider this a breach because of the encryption: Medical records of 5,400 patients have been stolen from a doctors’ surgery in Downpatrick. The break-in happened at the surgery of Drs Hannah and McGoldrick at Pound Lane over the Christmas period. They were in two computer hard disk drives and several DVDs containing…
Highmark notifies members of new ‘data spill’
Highmark was notifying some 3,700 members on Wednesday that documents containing their names, policy identification and social security numbers were missing, the second such data spill for the region’s dominant health insurer in four months. In January, the company mailed a premium billing statement to Boscov’s Department Store, a client in Reading, according to Highmark….
TX: (follow-up) Memorial Hermann worker sentenced for bank fraud, ID theft
As a follow-up to a case previously mentioned on this site: A former patient care assistant of a Houston area hospital has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud and stealing the identities of patients, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Nakeshia Brown, 30, of Houston, was sentenced to a total of 60 months…