Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Insurer Sends Patient Info to the Wrong People

Those worried patient-privacy advocates may have a point. In yet another example of the health industry mishandling private patient records, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia sent some 202,000 explanation of benefits letters to the wrong addresses last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The letters, which were mistakenly directed to the addresses of other [...]

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