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NewsMammoth Medicare fraud bust targets organized crime group
In what has been deemed the "largest Medicare fraud scheme ever perpetrated by a single criminal enterprise," 73 people--including members of an Armenian-American organized crime syndicate--were Read more...
Stolen Hopkins patient info used in $600K credit card fraud
Don't assume that your facility is immune to an inside job. A Johns Hopkins Hospital employee stole the names, social security numbers, birth dates, and addresses from patients and gave them to Read more...
Hospital loses data files for 800,000 patients
A third-party firm contracted out by a Massachusetts hospital to destroy sensitive computer files cannot confirm that it wiped them clean, leaving hundreds of thousands of patients at risk of Read more...
Red Flags Rule enforcement delayed until year's end
The Federal Trade Commission announced this morning--one business day before the June 1 enforcement date--that physicians will be granted yet another temporary reprieve from having to comply with the Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Laptops stolen from Veterans Affairs, N.M., Medicaid contractors were unencrypted
Two recently disclosed potential breaches of health data in government health programs, potentially impacting more than 10,000 patients, were the result of stolen, unencrypted laptops belonging to Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Healthcare organizations may have a false sense of data security
Healthcare organizations may be lulling themselves into a false sense of security when it comes to data security, according to a biannual report from HIMSS Analytics. The white paper, commissioned by Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Medical data theft growing as more adopt EMRs
Data theft and other fraudulent activities related to exposure of EMR data more than doubled last year, to 7 percent in 2009, compared to 3 percent in 2008, market research firm Javelin Strategy Read more...
Physician groups call on FTC to reevaluate its "broad application" of Red Flags privacy rule
Objecting to the Federal Trade Commission's notion that physician practices should be considered "creditors" with regard to identity theft protection regulations, four national Read more...
Ohio AG warns of H1N1 scam
Apparently, there's no problem that scammers can't turn into a profit bonanza. This time, con artists have targeted fears of the H1N1 virus to steal people's personal information--at least in Read more...
MedPAC seeks changes in physician payment incentives; Coalition promotes electronic ordering of imaging tests;
> In an announcement likely to be taken seriously--as its recommendations may soon be implemented automatically--MedPAC has released a report suggesting that Medicare change the way it pays Read more...
| Press ReleasesMedAssets will Market PatientSecureTM to Improve Patient Identity VerificationBiometric Patient Identification System to Complement MedAssets’ Access Integrity Solutions ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MedAssets, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDAS) announced today that it will work with HT Systems Read more >> Five defendants indicted in fraudulent credit card scheme using information stolen from Johns Hopkins Hospital patient recordsFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT AUSA VICKIE E. LEDUC or MARCIA MURPHY at 410-209-4885 September 30, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/md Read more >> |
