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Not as widely known as your run of the mill Identity Theft, Medical Identity Theft can have a far more dangerous impact on a person. While it involves finances, it has the ability to undermine someones ability to get medical care, insurance and even a job. While the threat is known, means to thwart it are still being developed. The public knowledge of this is still relatively small.  Katalin Goencz  of MedBillAssist in Stamford, CT discusses how this affects each of us and what we can do to protect ourselves.

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Articles

Identity Theft Programs Are Vital for Compliance and Sound Business

http://www.aishealth.com/Bnow/hbd080210.html

Medical Identity Theft – Facts for Consumers

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/idtheft/idt10.shtm

Medical Identity Theft

http://www.voluntarybenefitsmagazine.com/article-detail.php?issue=issue14&article=medical-identity

Navigating through the emotional, medical, social and financial process after being diagnosed with a  serious disease is completely foreign to most people. The feeling of being alone, scared and confused is typical. Realizing just how intimidating this is, hospitals have started patient advocacy programs that enable patients with experts to navigate them from diagnosis to treatment and hopefully a cure.

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Depression and Anixety

Dealing with life’s stressors is a challenge for most of us and an insurmountable object to some. Finding the advice or just an ear to discuss issues with can make all the difference.

Issues of depression and anxiety, while similar in ways can be vastly different in severity and treatment. Cutting edge developments in the treatment of depression are only some of the issues discussed in this interview.

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Lung-cancer patients who quit smoking survive longer - Time.com There’s no question that quitting smoking benefits your health, not least by reducing your risk of developing lung cancer. But what if you’re a smoker who has already been diagnosed with lung cancer — will quitting give you any advantage in fighting the disease?

Getting a New Knee or Hip? Do It Right the First Time - New York Times – THERE is nothing like a new hip or knee to put the spring back in your step. Patients receiving joint implants often are able to resume many of the physical activities they love, even those as vigorous as tennis and hiking. No wonder, then, that joint replacement is growing in popularity.

THE VERDICT: HANG UP – Don’t Fall for Jury Duty Scam – FBI – The phone rings, you pick it up, and the caller identifies himself as an officer of the court. He says you failed to report for jury duty and that a warrant is out for your arrest. You say you never received a notice. To clear it up, the caller says he’ll need some information for “verification purposes”-your birth date, social security number, maybe even a credit card number.

Universal Cholesterol Screenings For Children – Redorbit.com – Thousands of children with high levels of LDL cholesterol are going untreated, as current guidelines exclude as many as 10-percent of those who could benefit from medication, according to a new study completed by researchers at the West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown.

Medical Tests: 4 Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before Running Any Tests – ThirdAge.com – It has happened to all of us. We go to the doctor for a physical or because we don’t feel well. He or she orders a test to find out what’s wrong or to make sure we’re doing all right. We get the test because the doctor says we need it. We don’t question it because we tend not to second-guess doctors. But we should, because not only do these tests raise insurance costs, but they may actually be bad for our health!

Radial neuropathy (or radial mononeuropathy) is a type of mononeuropathy which results from acute trauma to the radial nerve that extends the length of the arm.

It is known as transient paresthesia when sensation is temporarily abnormal.

There are a number of colloquial terms used to describe radial nerve injuries, which are usually dependent on the causation factor: Saturday night palsy from falling asleep with your arm hanging over the arm rest of a chair, compressing the brachial plexus. Honeymoon palsy from somebody sleeping on and compressing your arm overnight Handcuff Neuropathy from tight fitting handcuffs compressing the superficial branch of the distal radial nerve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_neuropathy

There’s no question that quitting smoking benefits your health, not least by reducing your risk of developing lung cancer. But what if you’re a smoker who has already been diagnosed with lung cancer — will quitting give you any advantage in fighting the disease?

http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2010/01/22/quit-smoking/