FTC: Online Billing Service Deceptively Collected Medical Records

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 4, 2014 @05:37PM from the tell-us-everything dept.

itwbennett writes The FTC has reached a proposed settlement with PaymentsMD, an Atlanta health billing company that used the sign-up process for its billing service to surreptitiously seek customers' consent to obtain detailed medical information. The medical information PaymentsMD requested included customers' prescriptions, procedures, medical diagnoses, lab tests performed and their results, and other information, the FTC said. The bright spot in all this: In all but one case, the health care providers contacted for data refused to comply with PaymentsMD's requests.

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Re:I take it by sribe · 2014-12-05 04:53 · Score: 3, Insightful

I take it the one medical provider who had the major screwup of providing such personal and private data has had their license revoked and is now out of business?
Why? If someone comes to your doctor with a release approved by you for your medical information, do you really expect your doctor to give them the third degree over exactly how they obtained that release from you?
Personally, I think it's remarkable that so many providers were apparently paying enough attention to notice some irregularity and question the requests.