Elaine Silvestrini reports on yet another case out of Florida where patient data was misused for tax refund fraud: When the Florida Highway Patrol arrested a Tampa man during a traffic stop last year, troopers found evidence of tax refund fraud, including internal corporate documents from a Tampa-based private health insurance company. The documents from…
Category: Health Data
Leader Of $100 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Racketeering And Other Crimes
Back in October 2010, I noted the case of the Orange Regional Medical Center. They had suffered a data security breach in 2005, but never knew they had been breached until the U.S. Attorney’s Office mentioned their name in the context of a criminal Medicare fraud ring that operated between 2006 and 2010. Many doctors had…
Wow.
Seen on the home page of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama: The linked notice states: The United States Attorney’s Office is currently prosecuting cases which allege, among other things, theft of personal identifying information and the use of that personal identifying information to prepare fraudulent tax returns. These alleged thefts…
Montgomery woman pleads guilty in federal court to stealing the identities of Troy Hospital patients
A follow-up on a previously reported insider breach at Troy Regional. Erin Edgemon reports: Angeline Austin, 41, pled guilty to one count of conspiring to defraud the government regarding claims, of count of fraud in connection with identification documents, a count of fraud in connection with computers, and of aggravated identity theft, U.S. District Attorney for…
Possible security breach affecting members of the Waipahu Aloha Clubhouse
A statement from the Hawaii Department of Health: For Immediate Release: October 25, 2012 12-052 POSSIBLE SECURITY BREACH AT WAIPAHU ALOHA CLUBHOUSE Department of Health advises consumers to take precautionary action against identity theft HONOLULU — The Hawai‘i State Department of Health (DOH) is notifying members of the Waipahu Aloha Clubhouse of a possible security…
L.A. Care Health Plan notifies members after mailing gaffe
L.A. Care Health Plan notified members of a breach. In an undated letter, they write: L.A. Care is serious about member privacy. We are sending you this letter to make sure that you are aware of an accidental mailing error involving member identification (ID) cards. On September 18, 2012, L.A. Care learned that some member…