Here are five things to know:
1. The drives had medical information on customers who obtained laboratory services from 2009 to 2015.
2. The drives also held customers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and medical identification numbers.
3. Centene said the hard drives did not contain any financial or payment information.
4. The payer realized the drives were missing during an inventory of Centene’s information-technology assets.
5. Chief Executive Michael Neidorff said the payer does not believe the hard drives’ information has been used inappropriately.
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