If you are a victim of Medical ID theft, think of this...you could receive the wrong medical treatment, drugs, etc...over 200,000 people had someone else get medical services based on their stolen records...and how do you know you have been a victim...usually an unknown bill arrives, and that is the first clue...this somewhat makes a case for having your own Personal Health Record stored somewhere, if for no other reason to help reconciliate your health records if needed....BD
Getting stuck with the bill for a medical procedure you never had is bad enough, but medical identity theft also has far more serious implications.
"Unlike purely financial forms of identity theft, medical identity theft may also harm its victims by creating false entries in their health records at hospitals, doctors' offices, pharmacies and insurance companies," said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a nonprofit privacy-rights organization in Cardiff by the Sea, Calif.
Changes made to victims' medical files and histories can remain for years and may not ever be corrected, or even discovered, which can have deadly consequences.
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