INDIANAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCriticalResolved

Elkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc .

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

May 28, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

550,000

Confidence

69%

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.

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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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

May 28, 2020

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed550,000 affectedView incident

Name: Elkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc .
norm: elkhart emergency physicians
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Elkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc .
norm: elkhart emergency physicians
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 550,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Improper disposal
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
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

During the incident: Notified HHS and the media
Destroyed the affected PHI
Implemented new policies and procedures to better protect its PHI
Terminated affiliation with the business associate and its subcontractor
Changes made: Implemented new policies and procedures to better protect its PHI
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

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

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Reporting entityElkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc .

Victim entityElkhart Emergency Physicians, Inc .

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified HHS and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing