[privacy] Medical Data on 75, 000 Empire Blue Cross Members May Be Lost

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The New York Times.

[snip]

WellPoint, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, has begun
notifying 75,000 members of its Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield unit in
New York that a compact disc holding their vital medical and other personal
information had disappeared.

The information was on an unencrypted disc that a subcontractor recently
sent to Magellan Behavioral Services, a company in Avon, Conn., that
specializes in monitoring and coordinating mental health and substance
abuse treatments for insurance companies.

Empire began notifying the affected consumers by mail on Saturday that
their records — including their names, Social Security numbers, health
plan identification numbers and description of medical services back to
2003 — had been lost.

[snip]

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/business/14insure.html

- - ferg

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