Boston Medical Pays for Privacy Violations
The Boston Medical Center's health insurance plan will pay the state of Massachusetts $562,000 to settle a case about the improper use of patient information. The hospital sent 2,600 patients with health insurance letters promoting the hospital's medical insurance. This was a fundamental violation of privacy rules that limit use of personal information only to the purpose for which it was collected. In this case insurance information was for the purpose of paying medical bills.
Boston Medical settles privacy abuse flap, Boston Herald, June 20, 2008
