Health Data Breach Tracker/IA

Health Plan · Archived

Iowa Total Care, Inc.

536 individuals · submitted December 18, 2020

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Iowa Total Care, reported that an employee inadvertently emailed the protected health information (PHI) of 536 individuals to the wrong recipient. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, health insurance and claims information, diagnoses, and other treatment information. In response to the breach, the CE retrained all employees on email security precautions.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Iowa Total Care, Inc.
State
IA
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
536
Submission date
December 18, 2020
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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