This is a damned soap opera. If a patient “raids” his own doctor and steals his own medical records, is that a reportable breach under HIPAA and HITECH if the doctor is a HIPAA-covered entity? I think it is. Even if it is some kind of standard practice for the White House to obtain a…
Category: Health Data
NE: Complete Family Medicine advises patients of burglary
From their public notice: On March 1, 2018, the offices of Complete Family Medicine, LLC were burglarized. Later the same day, Complete Family Medicine discovered that the perpetrators stole numerous items including a computer component of a medical device used to conduct EKGs and uncashed patient checks that were stored in a locked safe. Law…
Palos Heights doctor indicted for insurance fraud; misused patient info
Mike Nolan reports: A suburban physician was indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly pocketing nearly $1 million in payments from Medicare and a private insurer for nonexistent treatment, the U.S. attorney in Chicago announced Friday. The 12-count indictment against Pranav Patel, owner of Palos Medical Care in Palos Heights, alleges he submitted fraudulent claims…
MS: Former Hospital Employee Charged for Stealing from Patient
A former employee at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson was arrested Wednesday for stealing money and banking information from a patient, announced Attorney General Jim Hood. Shaniqua Kiera Jenkins, 27, of Jackson, was arrested by investigators with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control following an indictment by a Hinds County grand jury on one count…
Scenic Bluffs Community Health Centers notifies patients of security breach
Hmm. The County Line posted the following notice with this preface: Editor’s note: Scenic Bluffs Community Health Centers prepared the following press release on its security breach in late February. Except I don’t see the notice on their site at all. Or on HHS’s breach tool. Did this not appear on HHS’s breach tool because…
Data breach affects Billings Clinic patients who used pharmacy at downtown location
Susan Olp reports: A data security breach involving Billings Clinic‘s email system affected 949 patients who used the Atrium Pharmacy, the hospital disclosed Friday. All of the patients who were part of the breach had access to or used the pharmacy at the hospital’s main campus, 2800 10th Ave. N., hospital spokesman Luke Kobold said…