U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) are demanding answers from American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), the third-party billing agency at the center of a data breach that compromised the personal, financial, and medical information of 20 million LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics, and Opko Health patients.
“Consumers should be able to have a reasonable expectation that, when they share their personal data with any company or its billing partner, such as AMCA, the data will be protected,” the senators wrote in a letter to AMCA President Russell Fuchs. “We must ensure that entities with access to patients’ personal, medical, and financial information understand their heightened duty to protect both the patient and their sensitive information and that your company is taking both immediate and long-term steps to mitigate any harm.”
