Here’s one you won’t see on HHS’s public breach tool, because it’s less than 500 patients. Harford Surgical Associates in Bel Air, Maryland notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that due to a mailing error on October 16, 2014, patients received up to three other patients’ billing statements. The statements included the patients’ names, addresses, telephone…
Category: Health Data
St. Louis County Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Anthem BCBS
Not surprisingly, there are a slew of class action lawsuits filed against Anthem over their major breach. I was surprised, however, to see a government agency suing. Bill Reker reports that attorney Maureen Brady, with the Kansas City law firm of McShane and Brady has filed the suit. Read more on CBS.
UK: Former Countess of Chester Hospital nurse banned for confidentiality breach
ChesterFirst reports: A former sexual health adviser at the Countess of Chester Hospital has been suspended from nursing after he disclosed details of a patient’s illness to a third party. Mark Henry Newman, 54, formerly of Acorn Court, Upton, has been suspended for nine months by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) after he breached…
FL: Federal Jury Finds Husband And Wife Guilty Of Operating A Clinic To Defraud Medicare
Here’s another case where patients knowingly participated in a Medicare fraud scheme, so I wouldn’t consider them victims (even though law enforcement never seems to prosecute them as criminals or co-conspirators). I think that the real victims here were the doctors whose identity information was misused to support the scheme and the insurance carrier who paid…
Identity theft allegedly occurs at hospital
Another case of medical identity theft, it seems. Seen on Salina.com: A 45-year-old California woman reported that when she tried to purchase a house in Hemet, Calif., she was denied the loan because of a $10,000 debt she allegedly owed to Salina Regional Health Center that showed up on her credit report. Manuela Chavez said…
Ca: Privacy commissioner calls for prosecution over Rob Ford privacy breach
Olivia Carville reports: Ontario’s privacy commissioner is calling for the two health professionals who allegedly snooped into former mayor Rob Ford’s medical records to face prosecution. If the duo is convicted, this would mark the first successful prosecution under the province’s health privacy law, which came into force more than a decade ago. Read more…