KTRK News reports: A Texas City man has been indicted for allegedly stealing the identity of a Vietnam War veteran and using that identity to receive health care benefits, United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced. An investigation led to the return of a six count indictment on March 31, 2008, charging Gerry Lynn McAfee, 52,…
Category: Health Data
Rep. Barton Seeks Probe In Theft of Computer
Ellen Nakashima and Rick Weiss write in The Washington Post: Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), the ranking minority member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, revealed yesterday that he is among the approximately 3,000 heart patients whose medical information was potentially exposed to public scrutiny when an unencrypted government laptop was stolen in February from…
UCLA staffer looked through Farrah Fawcett's medical records
Charles Ornstein reports in the Los Angeles Times: Months before UCLA Medical Center caught its staffers snooping in the medical records of pop star Britney Spears, ’70s TV icon Farrah Fawcett learned that a hospital employee had surreptitiously gone through records of her cancer treatments there, documents and interviews show. Fawcett’s lawyers said they are…
Ca: Alberta Health and Wellness, Nor-Don Collection Network
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta has issued another opinion: Summary: The Complainant complained that Nor-Don Collection Network (Nor-Don) had disclosed his health information to his spouse contrary to the Health Information Act (HIA) during a telephone call. In the alternative, he complained that Nor-Don had disclosed his personal information to…
Virginia Beach nurse charged with stealing dead man's credit card
Aaron Applegate of The Virginian-Pilot reports: An unconscious man was spotted last week in the parking lot of a BJ’s Wholesale Club. He was taken to Sentara Bayside Hospital and pronounced dead. Six hours later, a man in hospital scrubs used the dead man’s credit card at Best Buy to buy a laptop computer, police…
6 in Miami charged in hospital health fraud (update 1)
Seen at MySuncoast.com: Six people in Miami are facing federal fraud charges in an alleged scheme to steal patient information from a hospital. Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said Tuesday the six people used the stolen information to submit about $8 million in false claims to Medicare. The information involving about 1,500 people was…