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Feds: patient-history service is a scam
NEWARK, N.J.-A business that promises to provide patient histories to physicians in an emergency has its own predicament.
A federal judge shut down Lifesavers Emergency Response Network because prosecutors said the firm possessed medical information on only 10% of its 20,000 members. They called it a “particularly venal scheme.”
The feds said the Mount Laurel, N.J., company issued wallet cards with a phone number for emergency information to those who cashed $5 rebate checks and completed medical-information forms. That gave the firm the right to charge $120 a year for three years.
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