Protect yourself from medical identity theft

Entities Mentioned

• Federal Trade Commission
• California
• Florida
• Medicare
• Health Insurance Portability
• Nevada
• Arkansas
• Delaware

1. Like most people, you try to guard your social security number, bank account and credit card information. It's also important to protect your "medical identity." This refers to your personal health records. More than a quarter million people were victims of medical identity theft in 2005. That's nearly three times as many as four years earl... (Read Full Article)

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