Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Health Plan · Archived

Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan

839 individuals · submitted April 20, 2018

About this report

A business associate (BA), Change Healthcare, mailed 839 Explanation of Benefits (EOB) documents, with individuals' identification numbers visible in the address windows of the envelopes, to the covered entity's (CE) health plan members. The CE, Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan, provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the BA removed member numbers from the address field for future mailings. The CE instituted additional testing and quality assurance procedures with its programming team to help ensure that similar errors do not reoccur. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan
State
NY
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
839
Submission date
April 20, 2018
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Paper/Films
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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