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Friday, October 29, 2010

Advice on What Not to Do on the UC Health Plan That I Can Vouch For

Members of the UC health system periodically receive offers for an Amazon or other retail voucher if they fill out a health survey form online. Based on the info filled out on the form, you receive advice on how to improve your health. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Ex-UCSF employee sentenced for voucher scam


A former UCSF Medical Center employee was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in federal prison for using the Social Security numbers of fellow workers to complete health surveys so he could receive hundreds of $100 vouchers good for purchases from Amazon.com.

Cam Giang, 31, of San Francisco pleaded guilty in July to wire fraud, two months after UC fired him. From January to April, Giang used other UC employees' personal information to create accounts for a website maintained by StayWell Health Management Inc., which conducts online health surveys for employees, federal prosecutors said. Giang created hundreds of StayWell accounts and completed 382 online health surveys. In return, StayWell sent him "hundreds of $100 online vouchers," authorities said.

Full article at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/29/BA5Q1G3QVH.DTL

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