Health Plan · Archived
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
638 individuals · submitted December 22, 2017
About this report
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (Kaiser), the covered entity (CE), reported that it had impermissibly disclosed protected health information (PHI) due to a flaw in its mail merge and quality assurance process. The breach affected 638 individuals. The PHI involved included names, medications prescribed, and health plan members. Following the breach, Kaiser strengthened its quality assurance process for mail merging and provided training on the revised process as well as refresher HIPAA training on protecting the privacy and security of PHI.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
- State
- CA
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 638
- Submission date
- December 22, 2017
- Breach type
- Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information
- Paper/Films
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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