A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, has indicted five former hospital workers for violating HIPAA in a scheme that allegedly involved selling patient information to personal injury attorneys and chiropractors. The grand jury also indicted a sixth person, Roderick Harvey, who allegedly gathered and sold the information.
The five former hospital employees—Kirby Dandridge, 38, Sylvia Taylor, 43, Kara Thompson, 30, Melanie Russell, 41, and Adrianna Taber, 26—worked for Methodist Hospital in Memphis.[1]