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FL: PBSO deputy gets 5 years in prison in ID theft case

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Dissent

CBS12 reports on a case I’ve been updating on this site for the past few years: A Palm Beach County Sheriff‘s deputy received five years in prison after pleading guilty in an identity theft case. In March, Deputy Frantz Felisma pleaded guilty to federal charges of aggravated identity theft and access device fraud. He admitted to…

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Couple who stole Parkland, Baylor patient names to bill Medicare get federal prison time

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Dissent

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…

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Teen was writing a fraud to-do list when the cops came.

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Dissent

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…

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Wilmington doctor indicted on insurance fraud and identity theft charges

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Dissent

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…

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Rogue insiders can go undetected for a long time….

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Dissent

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…

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Virginia Woman Admits Stealing WVU Medicine University Healthcare Patient Information

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Dissent

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…

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