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Health Insurer Centene Loses Hard Drives Containing PHI of 950K Members

Health Insurer Centene Loses Hard Drives Containing PHI of 950K Members

January 27, 2016

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Centene Corp., the St. Louis, Mo.-based health insurer, has acknowledged that it is internally searching for six hard drives that contain personal health information (PHI) of approximately 950,000 individuals.

In a Jan. 25 press release, Centene said that it has determined the hard drives contained the personal health information of certain individuals who received laboratory services from 2009-2015, including name, address, date of birth, social security number, member ID number and health information. The hard drives do not include any financial or payment information, Centene said.

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