INDIANAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTCriticalResolved
Elkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc .
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Full breach record for Elkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc . →Elkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc. reported to HHS on 2020-05-28 a Improper Disposal affecting 550000 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A vendor employee of a business associate improperly discarded PHI including names, addresses, DOB, SSN, and diagnoses. The CE destroyed the PHI, implemented new policies, and terminated the BA relationship.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified
⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed550,000 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
- Filed at
- May 28, 2020
- Raw hash
- f0533c3e90b3fd13f46441f9f71d0570df388c63f89464e97759ba865c2b0382
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Elkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc .norm: elkhart emergency physicians
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Elkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc .norm: elkhart emergency physicians
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 550,000
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance to the CE regarding the HIPAA Rules
- Third party
- via vendor used by its business associatebusiness associate
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: not extracted→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.