Bulletins - 2010 -03/24/2010
This
Week's Bulletin Was Written
By Hilda Thompson
President Green Greeted everyone and called upon Jane Barry to lead the Pledge. Gary McElroy gave the invocation and Linda Jalvin led us in “Take me out to the Ball Game”.
Our Sgt at Arms Scott collected a lot of money and Pete McWire pulled out the black marble and won $800. He gave $300 of that money back.
Mel Gallegos paid a fine for his 41st weding anniversary and pledged to donate $500 by the end of the year to the Rotary Foundation.
Pete McGuire introduced the guests: Sandra Conners, Patrick Wingfields, Jerry Navarra, Randy Gregson, Mari Pullen, Pam Dixon – speaker, Mary Castagnola.
Judy Bambace announced Jerry Navarra with Jeromes Furniture as the Business of the Quarter.
Jerome's Furniture was recognized as Rotary's Business of the Quarter because it represents fair and ethical business practices, standards of workplace excellence and commitment to the local community. The company, founded in 1954 by Jim and Esther Navarra, has received numerous awards for its achievements in furniture retail and business leadership, its everyday low prices, friendly customer service and wide selection of quality products. Jerome's employs 370 people in seven locations. Being a family business, the company treats its employees like family, and there is very little turnover in employment. Charitable giving is at the core of Jerome's business values. The company donates time and funds to various non-profits, including YWCA's Becky's House, the San Diego Women's Foundation, Voices for Children and Veteran's Village. During the 2009 baseball season, Jerome's awarded the Best Seat in the House at Petco Park to more than 160 Padres fans. Jerry Navarra, the chairman and pitchman of Jerome's furniture, received the Business of the Quarter award on behalf of the company. He generously donated the Best Seat in the House for a future Padres game as an auction item for our upcoming fundraiser.
Mel Gallegos presented recent new member Kelly Berner with a Paul Harris Fellowship and informed us that studies have shown that each Fellowship will save 4 lives.
Nancy Vaughan introduced Ms. Pam Dixon the Executive Director of the World Privacy Forum her presentation was on “Medical Identity Theft”.
Ms. Dixon explained that she first got involved with the subject as she had to do a presentation and she became aware that there were various court cases on the subject but no research on it. So she first did the research and then started educating on Privacy Issues.
Defining Medical ID Theft:
Medical identity theft occurs when someone uses a person's name and sometimes other parts of their identity -- such as insurance information -- without the person's knowledge or consent to obtain medical services or goods, or uses the person’s identity information to make false claims for medical services or goods. Medical identity theft frequently results in erroneous entries being put into existing medical records, and can involve the creation of fictitious medical records in the victim’s name.
Medical identity theft is a crime that can cause great harm to its victims. Yet despite the profound risk it carries, it is the least studied and most poorly documented of the cluster of identity theft crimes. It is also the most difficult to fix after the fact, because victims have limited rights and recourses. Medical identity theft typically leaves a trail of falsified information in medical records that can plague victims’ medical and financial lives for years.
Healthcare Providers may incur harm as part of this crime.Data can be breached by and insider or an outsider or as a Clinic Takeover in Medicare/Medicaid practices, where clinics are formed with the purpose to steal peoples information and then bill procedures that are never done..
Prevention:
-Be cautious with your insurance cards. Make sure anyone asking for a copy of your card is a legitimate healthcare provider.
-Report lost wallets or insurance cards to the police. File a report the day it happens or soon thereafter.
-Proactively keep a complete copy of your medical files as a baseline.
-If you have credit monitoring watch for changes of address.
-When you go in for doctors appointments ask to review the files, specialy during the pre-op period before a surgical procedure.
-CHECK YOUR CREDIT REPORT.
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