{"id":8029,"date":"2017-08-31T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8029"},"modified":"2017-08-30T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T16:06:10","slug":"aetna-faces-class-action-lawsuit-after-exposing-customers-hiv-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8029","title":{"rendered":"Aetna faces class-action lawsuit after exposing customers&#8217; HIV status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Legal groups Monday filed a class-action lawsuit against Aetna, alleging the health insurer violated customers&#8217; privacy by inadvertently revealing the HIV status of about 12,000 people, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/health-insurance\/348320-aetna-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>. Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7787\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Legal groups Monday filed a class-action lawsuit against Aetna, alleging the health insurer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8030,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions\/8030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}