Health-care identity theft causes untrue entries into existing medical records at doctor’s offices, pharmacies, hospitals, and insurance companies. These erroneous entries made to victims’ medical files may not be corrected for years or even not discovered. Medical identity theft victims may not get proper medical treatment or may find their health insurance destroyed. Health-care providers [...]
Update: Federal Trade Commission has once again delayed compliance deadline of Red Flags Rule until June 1, 2010 for financial institutions and creditors as per the request of Members of Congress The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 issued set of regulations, known as “Red Flags Rule”, [...]
Hello Folks today i would like to get you some insights about a very identical rule and regulation to HIPAA. Federal Trade Commission’s Red Flag Rule. Red Flag Rule consist of Identity theft prevention program that aims to detect, prevent and mitigate identity theft covering existing or new accounts. The program must be appropriate to [...]
FTC’s Red Flag rule that was to be implied on Healthcare industry on the August 1st 2009 has finally delayed further. It seems AMA is quite against this one as they are very sure about the prevention of health information through HIPAA. Here’s a news feed. The Red Flag Rules enforced by the Federal Trade [...]
