Archive for the ‘Medical Identity Theft’ Category
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Medical Identity Theft Can Lead to Death
While credit- and financial-identity theft issues are busy stealing the spotlight and headlines across America, there’s one type of identity theft crime that can be far more devastating. In fact, the World Privacy Forum, a nonprofit public interest research group, reported that medical-identity theft is so harmful to the victim that it can actually lead […]
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Medical Identity Theft Victims - Options - Consequences
Most of the time, when someone finds they are the victim of a fraudulent scam, whether it is to steal their money or their financial identity, there is something they can do. They can contact the appropriate authorities, place credit holds on their personal reports, and even take legal steps against the perpetrator. It’s a […]
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Medical Identity Theft, Trusted Insiders, Billing Architecture
Although medical identity theft existed 30 years ago, it’s easy to see why it was not much of a big issue. Back then, there were no computers to gobble up all the medical history information that was being charted by doctor’s, nurses, pharmacies, and insurance companies, that there is today. Instead, professionals kept paper records […]
