Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Genesis Physical Therapy, Inc.

2,245 individuals · submitted October 7, 2016

About this report

Rehab Billing Solutions (RBS) is a business associate (BA), which handled the billing and medical records, for the covered entity (CE), Genesis Physical Therapy, Inc. A third party impermissibly accessed protected health information (PHI) by exploiting a vulnerability in the BA’s application that stores scanned documents. The demographic and/or financial information of 2,245 individuals was potentially involved in the breach. The CE ended the BA agreement with this BA on August 31, 2016, and did not have access to the application at the time of the breach. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and the media pursuant to the Breach Notification Rule. In response to OCR’s investigation, the CE provided OCR with a copy of its BA agreement with RBS, which contained satisfactory assurances regarding safeguarding PHI pursuant to the requirements of the Privacy and Security Rules.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Genesis Physical Therapy, Inc.
State
CA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
2,245
Submission date
October 7, 2016
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Electronic Medical Record
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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