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Payer Misplaces PHI of Nearly One Million Patients

Published on Fri Feb 19, 2016

  Your practice would be in quite a bind if it misplaced the protected health information (PHI) of 950 patients — now multiply that number tenfold, and that’s the issue facing health insurer Centene. The payer announced this week that it is missing six hard drives that held the PHI of about 950,000 patients. Although Centene stressed that the information [...]
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