While an average of 15 million Americans a year become victims of identity theft, there's an offshoot branch of this type of white-collar crime that's less talked about: medical identity theft.

An estimated 2.3 million adults were affected by medical identity theft last year. Some hospitals are turning to new technology such as biometric screening to confirm patient identities.

The Ponemon Institute's recent publication of its fourth annual 2013 Survey on Medical Identity Theft (Survey) confirmed what many in the healthcare industry already knew: identity theft is a ...

As a result, medical ID theft victims may find unfamiliar medical records or even incur unexpected medical bills. Child identity theft occurs when a child’s Social Security Number is stolen and ...

such as the wrong billing address, it can be a sign they’re not being careful,” says Deven McGraw, former Department of Health and Human Services privacy chief. Report it to the Office of the ...