[Dataloss] Computers stolen with data on 72, 000 Medicaid recipients

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http://story.cincinnatisun.com/p.x/ct/9/id/0739850fae5ac103/cid/d3350bca3cdaf0d1/

Last Updated: 5:20 am | Saturday, June 3, 2006

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Laptop computers with personal information on 72,000 Ohio 
Medicaid recipients were stolen from a private managed care agency, the 
state said Friday.

Officials with Buckeye Community Health Plan notified authorities Thursday 
that four computers were stolen from their Columbus office.

Two contained demographic information - including names, addresses and 
Social Security numbers - for all of the agency's 72,000 subscribers in 
Lucas, Summit and Stark counties, as well as medical information on 13,000 
consumers in Stark County.

Buckeye Community Health Plan contracts with the Ohio Department of Job 
and Family Services as a Medicaid service provider. Medicaid is a 
federal-state program that helps pay for health care for the needy, aged, 
blind and disabled, and for low-income families with children.

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