From: Dissent (Dissentpogowasright.org)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 18:58:41 CST

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http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/16683496.htm

The Department of Veterans Affairs began notifying 1.8 million
veterans and doctors Monday that their personal and business
information could be on a portable hard drive that has been missing
from an Alabama hospital for nearly three weeks.

[...]

[U.S. Rep. Artur Davis] said the department told him that the missing
storage unit included the Social Security numbers and names of about
10,000 people, plus another 525,000 Social Security numbers. The
information on doctors includes names and Medicare billing codes, he said.

[...]

Also:

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0207/021207p1.htm

[...]

The data for the 1.3 million physicians who have billed Medicaid and
Medicare, both living and deceased, could result in widespread fraud,
such as the creation of fake Medicare and Medicaid invoices.

There are 902,053 physicians in the United States, according to the
American Medical Association.

According to congressional sources, personal information on patients
and medical data were kept in separate files, but there is enough
information that files could be linked.

[...]

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