Health Data Breach Tracker/NY

Health Plan · Archived

Fidelis Care

687 individuals · submitted December 15, 2015

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Fidelis Care, mailed diabetes and kidney health letters to the wrong members. The letters contained the names, addresses, and identification numbers of 638 individuals. The CE provided breach notification to HHS and affected individuals and offered credit monitoring. Upon discovering the breach, the CE performed a risk assessment, As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE revised its safeguards policy regarding the printing of documents containing protected health information (PHI) and implemented a quality review process to assist with the inspection of outgoing mail that contains PHI. Additionally, the CE sanctioned and retrained the employees involved in the breach. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Fidelis Care
State
NY
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
687
Submission date
December 15, 2015
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Paper/Films
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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