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washingtonpost.com
Medicare portal exposed health providers’ Social Security numbers - The Washington Post
<strong>The Trump administration inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of health care providers in a database powering a new Medicare portal</strong>, The Washington Post found. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last year created ...
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Big Medicare Project Leaked Tons of Social Security Numbers | The New Republic
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ... Mehmet Oz · <strong>The Trump administration exposed the private Social Security numbers of dozens of health care providers while setting up a new Medicare portal.</strong>...
yahoo.com
Medicare portal database exposed health providers' Social Security numbers
<strong>The Trump administration inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of health care providers in a database powering a new Medicare portal</strong>, The Washington Post found. The Centers for Medicare an...
techradar.com
US healthcare providers Social Security numbers exposed via a public database – Trump administration directory designed to modernize Medicare encounters another error
<strong>CMS did not explain how many Social Security numbers were exposed, nor any information on if providers had been informed about the exposure</strong>. The database was taken down after the Post notified health officials.
thehill.com
Medicare portal database exposed Social Security numbers: Reports
<strong>CMS unintentionally published Social Security data for 100 health providers</strong>, raising concerns about data security and privacy.
thehill.com
Medicare portal database exposed Social Security numbers: Reports
The project is part of a broader effort led by the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Amy Gleason, to connect the public with healthcare providers. Oregon’s Democratic senators, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, wrote to CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz last November that they were “deeply concerned” about reports of “erroneous, conflicting, and duplicative information” included in this database. “While we appreciate CMS’s stated intent to help enrollees more easily navigate and choose a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, we are concerned that this rushed rollout will mislead millions of seniors as they compare plans, and may cause seniors and people with disabilities to incur medical bills they reasonably believed would be covered,” the senators wrote.
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