3 New Jersey hospitals also affected by MML data theft

Three more hospitals are notifying patients that their protected health information has been compromised after an employee of a third-party contractor improperly accessed and disclosed patient information, a breach that has affected hospitals in Pittsburgh, New York and now New Jersey.

A call center employee with Medical Management, a company that provides billing services to healthcare providers, copied patient information from the billing system and shared that information with a third party. Pittsburgh-based UPMC and White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital were both affected and have already notified patients.

The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J., Englewood (N.J.) Hospital and Medical Center and Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J., are the three latest hospitals to inform patients their data has been breached, according to a NorthJersey.com report.

Holy Name and Englewood Hospital said approximately 1,500 patients at each of their facilities have received notification of the breach. Valley Hospital did not indicate the extent of the breach at its organization, according to the report.

Breached information includes patient names, birth dates and Social Security numbers.

MML holds contracts with 40 providers nationwide, according to the report.

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