Thought this could be informative and helpful - with our medical records to be online, saw that Gerri Willis is running a series this week on ways to keep ones medical identity safe.
"Protect Yourself Against Medical Identity Theft"
snippet from her article:
"Protect Yourself Against Medical Identity Theft"
snippet from her article:
Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/w...-against-medical-identity-theft#ixzz2U32zORudI’m a big fan of keeping my personal information personal. But when it comes to your medical information, maintaining privacy is difficult, if not impossible. That’s because your information isn’t just held by your doctor, hospital and insurer, it’s also a commodity bought and sold by marketers, data base companies and even retailers.
In fact, on the black market, your medical records are more valuable than your social security number. According to Dr. Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights, it costs just 50 cents to a dollar to buy a social security number, but $14 to $24 to buy someone’s private medical details. Smart identify thieves are leaving the dumpster diving behind and focusing on medical identity theft because they prefer the deeper pockets of insurers to consumers.
A typical identity theft involves the looting of your insurance information by a thief who then makes false claims for drugs or medical services.....