Health Plan · Archived
UnitedHealth Group
896 individuals · submitted April 10, 2018
About this report
The covered entity (CE), UnitedHealth Group, reported that an employee of its business associate (BA) mistakenly mailed the protected health information (PHI) of 896 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, medical information, and financial and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS and the affected individuals and provided complimentary credit monitoring services. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect PHI and retrained its staff on the requirement to safeguard PHI.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- UnitedHealth Group
- State
- MN
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 896
- Submission date
- April 10, 2018
- Breach type
- Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information
- Paper/Films
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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