Aetna has signed another large settlement related to privacy breaches involving mailings to its health plan members. The settlement with the New York state attorney general’s office is related to two postal mailings last year. New York settlement agreement provides an accounting of “a disturbing number of incidents” in which the health information of plan members or participants in one or more research studies was disclosed through inattention and lack of controls to ensure that confidential information was not displayed when communications were mailed, says privacy attorney David Holtzman.”]
Source: https://www.inforisktoday.com/aetna-signs-115-million-settlement-ny-for-breaches-a-10606