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United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley Notifies Patients About August 2021 Ransomware Attack

HIPAA Journal

Lee County Emergency Medical Services Notifies Patients About Third-Party Data Breach. Lee County Emergency Medical Services has recently started notifying certain patients about a business associate-related data breach. Lee County Emergency Medical Services said around 2% of the records provided to SGR were compromised.

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Another Legislative Attempt to Revive Gene Patenting

Bill of Health

The Supreme Court’s decision in Myriad had an immediate effect on the price and availably of BRCA testing, and today consumers, for about $100, can learn whether they carry the primary BRCA mutations from direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing companies like 23andMe. Utah 2014)) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (774 F.3d

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How health systems can better protect patient privacy

Healthcare It News

Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, says good communications with patients about cybersecurity protection is essential – even as risks to protected health information are on the rise, from external bad actors and insider threats. Overcommunicate about your auditing program.

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California and North Dakota Hospitals Report Cyberattacks

HIPAA Journal

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in California is notifying 13,345 individuals about a data breach at a subcontractor of one of its business associates. Fernald Developmental Center campus in Waltham, MA, which was sold to the city of Waltham in 2014.

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Preventing Unlicensed Individuals and Subsequent Fraudulent Claims Submission

Provider Trust

District Attorney alleges that Pickering was hired in 2019 as a licensed physician’s assistant at a family practice in Norcross, Georgia but had not been a licensed physician’s assistant in Georgia, or any state, since March 2014. The Importance of Conducting License Verification and Monitoring. According to the U.S.

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SundaySky Cyberattack Impacts 37,000 Health Plan Members

HIPAA Journal

The affected individuals had created an online PPS account between July 2014 and January 13, 2023. Texas Medical Liability Trust Alerts Policyholders About PHI Breach Texas Medical Liability Trust has recently notified 625 medical insurance policyholders that some of their personally identifiable information has been exposed.

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DOJ charges four in $37M global telehealth fraud scheme

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Justice announced this past Friday that it had charged four people, one of whom is a licensed physician, in an international telehealth fraud and kickback scheme. Woroboff, Willard and Mills allegedly agreed to pay Massachusetts-based physician Dr. Le Thu, who is also charged in the indictment, about $35 per prescription.

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