Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s state audit agency has launched an inspection on the financial regulator for its decision giving local life insurers access to personal health records for use as credit information, financial sources said Wednesday. According to the sources, a team of inspectors from the Board of Audit and Inspection has been at…
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Overwhelmed call center number frustrates victims of CHS breach
If call center for the CHS breach is overloaded, and the company acknowledges it has been, remember that you can sign up for the free credit monitoring offer on their web site via Kroll, here. That won’t help you get answers to any questions you may have about what information of yours was involved, but…
Healthcare.gov Hacked in July — DHHS Discovers Attack Only Last Week
Jillian Kay Melchior reports: Healthcare.gov was hacked in July, the Wall Street Journal reported this afternoon– but the Department of Health and Human Services learned of the attack only last week: A hacker broke into part of the HealthCare.gov insurance enrollment website in July and uploaded malicious software, according to federal officials. Investigators found no evidence that consumers’…
NC: Medicaid Provider Pleads to Federal Fraud Charges
GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Timberlake, North Carolina, woman pleaded guilty to health care fraud and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina. Tracie Yvette Clay, 46, of Timberlake, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in federal court in Greensboro before Chief United States District Court Judge William L. Osteen, Jr.,…
Judge temporarily blocks law that could close all Louisiana abortion clinics
Jonathan Kaminsky reports: A U.S. federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law that advocates say would likely have closed all five abortion clinics in the state. The measure, signed into law by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in June and due to take effect Sept. 1, would require doctors who perform abortions…
Family of boy with brain tumor accuses British officials of cruelty
Every so often we hear about a case where parents find themselves in legal jeopardy for not following doctors’ advice. This seems to be another one of those cases. Danika Kirka reports: The grandmother of a British boy with a severe brain tumor has accused UK authorities of cruelty for seeking an arrest warrant and…