{"id":168688,"date":"2018-07-02T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168688"},"modified":"2018-07-02T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T06:49:00","slug":"pharmacy-chain-ohio-health-department-sued-over-hiv-mailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/02\/pharmacy-chain-ohio-health-department-sued-over-hiv-mailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy chain, Ohio Health Department sued over HIV mailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_151845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151845\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27848748_1799316980087878_87132565_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151845\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27848748_1799316980087878_87132565_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Columbus Dispatch reports the lawsuit filed by a Cleveland-area attorney says the state shared private medical information with CVS last summer without patients' authorization, allowing CVS to make a marketing pitch to non-customers about its pharmacy services.(Shutterstock Photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27848748_1799316980087878_87132565_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27848748_1799316980087878_87132565_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27848748_1799316980087878_87132565_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27848748_1799316980087878_87132565_n-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Columbus Dispatch reports the lawsuit filed by a Cleveland-area attorney says the state shared private medical information with CVS last summer without patients&#8217; authorization, allowing CVS to make a marketing pitch to non-customers about its pharmacy services.(Shutterstock Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0A class-action lawsuit has been filed with the Ohio Court of Claims against CVS Caremark and the state Health Department over a mailing that might have publicly disclosed the identity of 6,000 HIV patients.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbus Dispatch reports the lawsuit filed by a Cleveland-area attorney says the state shared private medical information with CVS last summer without patients&#8217; authorization, allowing CVS to make a marketing pitch to non-customers about its pharmacy services.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says the designation \u201cPM 6402 HIV\u201d was visible above the name and address of recipients.<\/p>\n<p>A federal lawsuit was filed against CVS in March over the mailing.<\/p>\n<p>A CVS spokesman says the company takes patient information seriously and will handle future mailings differently.<\/p>\n<p>A Health Department spokesman says the agency doesn&#8217;t comment on pending litigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0A class-action lawsuit has been filed with the Ohio Court of Claims against CVS Caremark and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":151845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[52468,3075,52469,52467],"class_list":["post-168688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cvs-caremark","tag-hiv","tag-hiv-patients","tag-ohio-health-department","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}