Tenet Employee Charged with Theft, HIPAA Violations

John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, May 27, 2009

Federal prosecutors in Miami have charged an employee at Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah and an accomplice with theft of patient records and felony HIPAA violations.
Jacquetta L. Brown, 29, a medical records employee at the 360-bed acute-care hospital, and accomplice Tear Renee Barbary, 25, face multiple felony counts of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, and criminal HIPAA violations. Brown also faces aggravated identity theft.

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