According to a press release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Atlanta Division, Matthew Paul Brown, 30, formerly of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to more than five years in prison on charges of health care fraud and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.

The FBI press release said, “Brown was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution totaling $1,063,004. On September 14, 2011, Brown pled guilty to 16 counts of health care fraud, as well as one count of wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information, in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”).”

For background information on this case, you may want to read a couple of my earlier blog postings. In my August 9, 2011, blog post titled “Who Is an ‘Other Individual’ That Can Be Prosecuted for a HIPAA Crime?” I mentioned the indictment of Brown, who had impersonated a doctor to commit the health care fraud and criminal HIPAA violation. In my September 17, 2011, blog post titled “Another HIPAA Guilty Plea,” I discuss Brown’s guilty plea in particular and the expansion of HIPAA criminal liability in general from formerly only covered entities to now also “other individuals.”