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HHA Owner Pleads Guilty

Published on Fri Dec 05, 2014

A home health agency owner in Texas has pled guilty to stealing patient info from his hospital job to get his business off the ground.  Viju Mathew, a registration specialist at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, admitted to using his position to obtain confidential patient information, including patients’ names, telephone numbers, dates of birth, participation in the Medicare program, and government-issued [...]
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