Aetna Mailer Accidentally Reveals HIV Status Of Up To 12,000 Customers
August 25, 201712:35 PM ET
Merrit Kennedy
A photo provided by the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania shows an Aetna mailer in which a reference to HIV medication is partly visible though the envelope window.
AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
The health insurer Aetna is facing criticism for revealing the HIV status of potentially thousands of customers after it sent out a mailer in which information about ordering prescription HIV drugs was clearly visible through the envelope's clear window.
For example, in a letter sent to a customer in Brooklyn, N.Y., the window revealed considerably more than the address. It also showed the beginning of a letter advising the customer about options "when filling prescriptions for HIV Medic ... "
Continued: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/25/546048615/aetna-mailer-accidentally-reveals-hiv-status-of-up-to-12-000-patients
I had not seen this story from the past week posted here.
