If you are a veteran you need to start treating your VA card like your Social Security card. When you don't have anything on your calendar requiring it - like an appointment at the VA - leave it at home....
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Medical identity theft is among the most devastating and dangerous of identity-related crimes perpetrated against consumers. It occurs when someone misrepresents who they are in order to obtain health-related services. When someone steals your medical identity your Personal Health Information...
Everything's going digital these days. Cornell Labs has even built a machine that "prints" food based on digital designs. While I'll admit that it's cool to see little space shuttles made out of scallops, there are some things that we...
Anyone who has kept up with the latest news headlines would know that identity theft is on the rise. Proactive consumers know the value of educating themselves on identity theft and monitoring their credit. However, many consumers forget that identity...
Two of the biggest misconceptions today center around understanding the difference between credit card fraud and the many other types of identity theft-and how those differences affect making choices between simply obtaining credit monitoring services or opting for identity theft...
If you have not been a victim of medical identity theft, count yourself lucky. This doesn't mean, however, that you should be indifferent to the possibility of being victimized by unscrupulous identity thieves who would do anything to steal your...
A missing computer flash drive that contained data on Medicaid patients served by Keystone Mercy Health Plan and AmeriHealth Mercy Health Plan, two affiliated insurance companies, may now end up causing members of either health plan to become targets of...
Erica Jayne Forish - Senior Staff Writer for Western Mass Women Magazine recently interviewed me about identity theft and the impact it has when it strikes. The article additionally highlights medical identity theft a growing and dangerous type of fraud...
A recent article in the NY times points out that medical identity theft is a growing concern. The article points to the last time federal data on the crime was collected, for a 2007 report, where it was discovered that...
Medical identity theft doesn't just do a number on your credit report it can also leave potentially deadly information in your medical file! I've often written about the various forms of identity theft but medical identity theft is something that...
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