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EX-UCLA Health Care System Employee Pleads Guilty to Illegally Reading Patients Medical Records

By Robert David, Esq.

LOS ANGELES, CA - January 8, 2010 - The U.S. Attorney?s Office for the Central District of California announced that a former UCLA Healthcare System employee pleaded guilty to four counts of illegally reading private and confidential medical records, mostly from celebrities and other high-profile patients. Huping Zhou, 48, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty prior to a trial to four misdemeanor counts of violating the federal privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Appearing before United States Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Wistrich, Zhou admitted to knowingly obtaining individually identifiable health information without a valid reason, medical or otherwise. Zhou becomes one of the first people in the nation to be convicted of violating the privacy provisions of HIPAA...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on January 09, 2010 (boomark / email).