The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unintentionally published Social Security data for at least 100 health ...
The Social Security numbers were exposed in a publicly facing database.
CMS’ Medicare Advantage provider directory exposed healthcare providers’ Social Security numbers, The Washington Post reported April 30. The Post downloaded a public database used to populate the ...
A Medicare portal database unintentionally reveals health providers’ Social Security numbers, prompting confusion among ...
More than 100,000 individuals may have been impacted by a "data incident" where unauthorized Medicare beneficiary accounts were made using their information. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
Nearly 1 million Medicare beneficiaries have recently learned that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach last year. This incident comes on the heels of another incident ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ge Bai is professor of accounting & health policy at Johns Hopkins. While it remains unclear what CMS will ultimately do, lessons ...
It is the latest technical problem related to the Trump administration’s push to create a national directory of health ...
WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - A Medicare portal database exposed U.S. health providers' Social Security numbers, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Post reported that the database was ...