The following was the notification MAXIMUS sent out on April 17 and that they kindly provided to this site today. There was also a Spanish-language version: MAXIMUS today notified approximately 1,100 Texas families participating in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) of a printing error that resulted in some program participants receiving a…
Category: Health Data
Mass notification launched after inappropriate access to 1,756 Winnipeg patients’ data
Canadian Press reports: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says it will be contacting hundreds of patients in the coming weeks after a nurse inappropriately accessed their personal health information. The authority says in a release that the nurse, who had access to the emergency department information system for work at one site, inappropriately searched information…
Former Trump doctor alleges that president’s medical records were seized in raid
This is a damned soap opera. If a patient “raids” his own doctor and steals his own medical records, is that a reportable breach under HIPAA and HITECH if the doctor is a HIPAA-covered entity? I think it is. Even if it is some kind of standard practice for the White House to obtain a…
NE: Complete Family Medicine advises patients of burglary
From their public notice: On March 1, 2018, the offices of Complete Family Medicine, LLC were burglarized. Later the same day, Complete Family Medicine discovered that the perpetrators stole numerous items including a computer component of a medical device used to conduct EKGs and uncashed patient checks that were stored in a locked safe. Law…
Palos Heights doctor indicted for insurance fraud; misused patient info
Mike Nolan reports: A suburban physician was indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly pocketing nearly $1 million in payments from Medicare and a private insurer for nonexistent treatment, the U.S. attorney in Chicago announced Friday. The 12-count indictment against Pranav Patel, owner of Palos Medical Care in Palos Heights, alleges he submitted fraudulent claims…
MS: Former Hospital Employee Charged for Stealing from Patient
A former employee at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson was arrested Wednesday for stealing money and banking information from a patient, announced Attorney General Jim Hood. Shaniqua Kiera Jenkins, 27, of Jackson, was arrested by investigators with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control following an indictment by a Hinds County grand jury on one count…