US University of Pennsylvania Health System 2013 Technical Error (Q9180)
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US University of Pennsylvania Health System 2013 Technical Error
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A data breach risk event
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January 2013
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The University of Pennsylvania Health System revealed Monday that some patients privacy was accidentally breached because of misprinted bills. One of Penns billing vendors, RevSpring of Wixom, Mich., had a malfunction in its printing operation. As a result, some patients received bills containing both their own correct information and an unrelated patients information on the reverse side of the statement. The inadvertent information included the unrelated patients name, physician, types of services and tests, and amount owed. Social Security numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, and insurance numbers were not printed on these misprinted bills, Penn said in a statement. More than 500 erroneous statements, affecting more than 1,000 patients, were mailed, although Penn spokeswoman Susan E. (English)
