As if having your financial life stolen right from under you wasn’t enough, now we need to introduce the concept of medical identity theft to our blog readers. An example of the way medical identity theft affects individuals is a New York Times feature story of Brandon Sharp. Brandon is a oil and gas company manager in his late 30s and is fairly healthy. He has never had to visit an emergency room and yet lately was made aware that he owes thousands of dollars in emergency-service bills! After getting a current copy of his credit report, Brandon found that he had collection notices from all over the US.
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Many of us have had to face the unpleasant experience of an unwanted hospital stay. The only hospital stays that we look forward to are those that involve the birth of a new baby in the family or to a close friend. There are many worries that come with having to go to the hospital and face surgery or intensive procedures. So can going to the hospital and having to face these medical challenges get any worse? Yes, it can and it has for some  patients in (more…)

One form of identity theft that is quickly increasing, is medical identity theft. Each year, more than 250,000 and as many as 500,000 people have their medical identity stolen. Who would have thought that someone would be looking to steal your medical identity?
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