Isn’t medical identity theft just a type of health care fraud?
Yes. Medical identity theft is a subset of health care fraud. But it is not just that, because the crime can also have financial and other life-consequences for patients. It isn’t just a crime against the health care system. Medical identity theft needs to be understood in its context as an information crime. It’s a crime involving theft or abuse of identity information as well as a crime that makes individuals victims in addition to the providers and insurers who may directly bear financial losses.
