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Ex-hospital worker to serve prison time for identify theft

Healthcare Security Weekly, August 27, 2007

A former hospital employee was sentenced to more than two years in prison and ordered to pay more than $120,000 in restitution for identify theft and bank fraud.

The sentencing was announced August 17 by the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office, reported The Baltimore Sun. A 25-year-old Baltimore woman, who worked at Harbor Hospital where she had access to patients' confidential information and Social Security numbers, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identify theft.

She began working at the hospital in June 2005, and between September 2005 and March 2006, she used the name and Social Security number of a patient without the person's consent to obtain credit and purchase more than $61,000 of items, prosecutors said. She also used other Social Security numbers and false employment verifications to fraudulently obtain loans for seven vehicles, the newspaper reported.

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