Eric Drew
Credit Card Companies Fueling Healthcare Associated Identity Theft (HAIT) Crimes
Published in Hospital Law Weekly, July 10th, 2008
Credit card companies are knowingly contributing to the identity theft epidemic by making it easy for people with access to patient records to apply for and receive credit using stolen information. Hospital workers, lab technicians and even janitors with as little as a stolen social security number are able to manipulate the automated systems used by such industry giants as Bank of America, Citibank and Chase to apply for and receive credit issued under the name of an ill or incapacitated patient.
phone call and some basic information are often enough for these companies to grant credit without any verification of the legitimacy of the applicant. The identity theft...
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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2008-07-10)
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