Responding To The Red Flags Of Identity Theft

By Tracy Peabody and Rich Landen

Today's high-profile breaches and increased media coverage guarantee that we're all familiar with identity theft. But the most rapidly growing segment – and one of the most damaging – is medical identity theft, which grew 400 percent in 2008 and accounts for close to five percent of all identity theft cases according to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) survey.

Medical identity theft occurs when a person seeks or receives healthcare using someone else's name or insurance information. Whether sympathetic ("my friend has no coverage, so I let her borrow my card") or criminal (an employee at the medical office steals or copies patient records to sell on the black market), the consequences can be staggering.

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