A US federal grand jury in Tennessee has indicted five former Methodist Hospital employees for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The five defendants allegedly supplied Roderick Harvey with names and phone numbers of Methodist patients who had been in car accidents. Harvey also faces charges related to the scheme. …
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A former physician has pleaded guilty to violating the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Frank Alario pleaded guilty “to conspiring to wrongfully disclose patients’ individually identifiable health information to pharmaceutical sales representative Keith Ritson in violation of the criminal provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).” Ritson is scheduled …
Updated on 2022-09-30 Managed care company Magellan Health will pay $1.43 million to settle a lawsuit filed in the wake of a 2019 data breach. In May 2019, Magellan subsidiary Magellan Rx Management suffered a phishing attack that led to the compromise of sensitive personal information belonging to 273,000 patients. While Magellan learned about the …
