Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being sued by its transgender clinic patients, who accuse the hospital of violating their privacy by turning their records over to Tennessee’s attorney general.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being sued by its transgender clinic patients, who accuse the hospital of violating their privacy byTwo patients sued Monday in Nashville Chancery Court, saying they were among more than 100 people whose records were sent by Vanderbilt to. His office has said it is examining medical billing in a “run of the mill” fraud investigation that isn’t directed at patients or their families. Vanderbilt has said it was required by law to comply.
“Against that backdrop, its failure to safeguard the privacy of its patients is particularly egregious,” the lawsuit says. Many of the patients involved are state workers, or their adult children or spouses; others are on TennCare, the state’s Medicaid plan; and some were not even patients at the transgender clinic, according to the lawsuit. It says that records for more than 100 current and former patients were sent without redacting their identities.
The hospital waited months before telling patients their medical information was shared, acting only after the existence of theHowser said that at that point, hospital officials thought patients should hear it from them instead of media reports or other ways.
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