ISR News: Employee Arrested for ID Theft
Excerpt by LA Time’s Alexandra Zavis
More than 1,000 patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center had their personal information taken by a former employee in the hospital’s billing department, according to hospital officials who said prosecutors allege that the man used the identities to steal from insurance companies.
Hospitals’ increasing reliance on computerized record-keeping has provided new avenues for identity theft and invasions of medical privacy. As recently as May, a Glendale man was convicted of using the names of hundreds of Los Angeles County and city employees to submit fraudulent claims for diagnostic services amounting to more than a quarter-million dollars.
Cedars-Sinai officials said that although they continually reevaluate security procedures, they plan to use the latest breach as another opportunity to review the way the hospital monitors the conduct of employees who have access to patients’ information.
Filed under: Breach, Class Action Lawsuit, D&O Liability, Financial, ISR News, Insider Threat, Sarbanes-Oxley, Uncategorized, identity-theft, privacy
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