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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Federal officials said Monday they ;re working to cut down on a growing backlog of complaints lodged against health care providers, insurers or government agencies by patients who claim their civil rights or privacy have been violated.Americans filed more than 51,000 complaints against health
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stanley cup remendously 鈥?69 percent 鈥?over the last five years,聽the federal Health and Human Services agency announced. Some complaints can take years to investigate.About two-thirds of the cases involve potential violations of health information privacy and security, a problem that has worsened in recent years because of data breaches and cybersecurity hacks, the agency said. In 2021, more than 700 large breaches of health information were reported. Health insurer聽Anthem, for example, was forced to pay the government a record $16 million聽fine in 2018 after a data breach affecting about 79 million people 鈥?including names, birthdates, Social Security numbers and medical IDs.READ MORE: Hospital finan
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?As the Biden administration grapples with an increasingly tense and unstable situation in the Middle East, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the region this weekend for the fourth time in three months on a tour expected to focus largely on easing resurgent fears that the聽Israel-Hamas war聽cou
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