The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas released the following statement this past week: A federal jury has convicted two local men on conspiracy and health care fraud charges related to their operation of a physician house call company in North Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of…
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TX: Former Co-Owner of RGV DME Biller Sentenced to Federal Prison for Health Care Fraud Scheme
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott released the following statement this past week: The co-owner of a now defunct McAllen area durable medical equipment (DME) business and a former medical biller have been ordered to prison for their roles in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through fraudulent billings, United States Attorney Kenneth…
Laptop thefts compromise 700,000-plus hospital patient files
Richard Winton reports: The theft of two laptop computers from a hospital administration office in Alhambra has compromised the health information of 729,000 patients, including their social security numbers, officials said Monday. The laptops were stolen Oct. 12 and contain data from patients treated at AHMC [AHMC Healthcare Inc.] hospitals: Garfield Medical Center, Monterey Park…
Privacy breach at Northern Inyo Hospital could result in criminal charges
From today’s Inyo Register in Bishop, California: Local law enforcement has opened an investigation into the theft of medical records from Northern Inyo Hospital in a case that has shaken community members and NIH itself. This past summer, hospital officials noticed that an employee in the records department had illegally obtained and was in possession…
Broward Health Medical Center notified by law enforcement that employee stole face sheets
Another insider breach in a Florida healthcare facility where the covered entity only learned of the breach via notification by law enforcement. Maria Mallory White reports: A former Broward Health Medical Center employee took documents containing the personal information of nearly 1,000 patients in a data breach uncovered by local and federal officials, the Fort Lauderdale health system announced…
GAO: Medicare ID Cards a Fraud Risk
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Citing concerns about identity theft risks, a new Government Accountability Office report urges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to step up its efforts to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare beneficiaries’ identification cards. Read more on GovInfoSecurity.com.