Almost six years after I first reported on this breach and almost three years after they pleaded guilty, a Texas couple has been sentenced to prison. Kevin Krause reports: A Dallas company enticed patients to use Medicare-funded home health care they didn’t need by giving them grocery gift cards and cash, federal prosecutors say. Dallas Home Health Care…
Category: ID Theft
Teen was writing a fraud to-do list when the cops came.
David J. Neal reports: Topping a list of Things Cops Want to Find When Executing a Search Warrant at a Suspected Million Dollar Fraudster’s Home might be “the suspect writing his fraud to-do list.” That’s what law enforcement found Phyllistone Termine doing at his North Miami-Dade home. That’s not the only reason Termine, 19, was…
Wilmington doctor indicted on insurance fraud and identity theft charges
Esteban Parra reports: A Wilmington psychiatrist – a former Delaware Medical Board officer – has been indicted on charges he submitted more than $100,000 in insurance claims over a two-year period for visits that did not occur. To facilitate this fraud, Dr. Karl McIntosh used his patients’ personal identifying information without their consent, according to the state Department…
Rogue insiders can go undetected for a long time….
So how are you determining if your Business Associate or vendor has a rogue employee who may be stealing or misusing your patients’ protected health information? A notification from Anthem regarding an incident that affected more than 18,000 Medicare members in 21 states is a timely reminder that out of sight cannot mean out of mind…
Virginia Woman Admits Stealing WVU Medicine University Healthcare Patient Information
The Associated Press has an update on an insider breach previously noted earlier this year: Forty-one-year-old Angela Roberts of Stephenson, Virginia, entered the plea Monday in federal court in Martinsburg. Roberts admitted using someone else’s personal information to commit bank fraud in June 2016 in Berkeley County, West Virginia. She faces up to five years…
OH: Local nursing assistant charged after using credit card stolen from patient
Erin Zaranec reports: A local nursing assistant was charged with misuse of credit cards and four other counts after using a credit card she stole from a patient. Markita Hunter was seen in security video using a Chase Bank credit card that was stolen from a patient at University Hospitals, where she works. Read more on…