TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Sep 1, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has revealed that it did not turn over all of the patient records requested by the Tennessee Attorney General's office in a billing investigation. The Tennessean reports that initially, VUMC informed over 150 patients that their comprehensive health records had been provided to the attorney general's office, but it later confirmed that records for only 82 patients were actually provided. The investigation, described as a "run-of-the-mill" fraud investigation by Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, has raised privacy concerns and led to two patients suing the hospital, claiming distress and hostility toward transgender people in the state.