Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with the assistance of the Orlando Police Department, today arrested two individuals for participating in a scheme to defraud the Medicaid program using teenagers’ personal identity information. Wendy Leiba of Longwood, 53, and Bobby Lyons of Winter Garden, 50, allegedly assisted Orlando-based companies to fraudulently bill Medicaid…
Category: Health Data
Charge laid against Manitoba Health employee accused of inappropriately accessing health information
CTV reports: A charge has been laid against a former Manitoba Health employee for accessing personal health information inappropriately. The office of the Manitoba Ombudsman said it conducted an investigation after a report of a privacy breach at Manitoba Health’s Provincial Drug Program. The Ombudsman said a former employee who had access to personal health…
Wyoming Medical Center reports patient record breach
Laura Hancock reports: Records of nearly 3,200 Wyoming Medical Center patients may have been accessed in February, the hospital reported Thursday. On Feb. 25, an unidentified third party had access for 15 minutes to two Wyoming Medical Center email accounts containing patient records, the Casper hospital said in a statement. The records contained patient names,…
‘Stolen’ medical records from Prime Medical clinic found flying around Melbourne park
Julia Medew reports: Medical files belonging to at least a dozen patients have allegedly been stolen from a Melbourne GP clinic and dumped in a park, exposing people’s most intimate personal history. The privacy breach also puts the patients at risk of identity theft because the files included their full name, address, date of birth,…
AU: Gold Coast Health apologizes and retrains staff after patient notes found lying in street
Ryan Keen reports: Gold Coast Health is retraining staff on how to handle patient records after a local truckie’s surgical report and personal information was found in the street. The blunder, which prompted truck driver Martin James to lodge a complaint with Gold Coast Health’s privacy officer, has resulted in fallout for a hospital registrar…
Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic settles HHS/OCR charges over failure to have BAA in place
HHS has announced another enforcement action. This one stems from an investigation into a breach noted on this site in May, 2013. Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic, P.A. of North Carolina (Raleigh Orthopaedic) has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges that it potentially violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule…