[Med-privacy] prescription info. privacy

[peter marshall]

Comments of the World Privacy Forum to the FTC re: Ingenix and Milliman 
FCRA enforcement action

Some recent articles about the sale of patients' prescription histories 
to insurance companies have raised many consumer questions about this 
practice. Ingenix and Milliman -- two companies engaged in this 
practice -- were the subject of a Federal Trade Commission enforcement 
action which was published for comment in September 2007. The World 
Privacy Forum provided formal comments to the Federal Trade Commission 
last year about this enforcement action; the WPF sought to have all 
affected consumers notified of adverse actions taken based on the 
information, and asked the FTC to modify its enforcement action to 
include an appropriate monetary penalty against the two companies.

World Privacy Forum letter to the FTC | FTC letter responding to the 
World Privacy Forum | Related: FTC Case files for Ingenix and Milliman