Health Plan · Archived
Group Health
668 individuals · submitted September 23, 2016
About this report
The covered entity (CE), through its business associate (BA), erroneously mailed coverage termination letters to the wrong members/patients. The paper documents contained the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 668 individuals and included names, addresses, insurance group names, and medical record numbers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE worked with the BA to take additional quality control steps. OCR obtained assurances that the CE/BA implemented the corrective actions listed above.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Group Health
- State
- WA
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 668
- Submission date
- September 23, 2016
- Breach type
- Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information
- Paper/Films
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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