AZPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved

Emergency Room Associates

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Emergency Room Associates dba Emergency Medicine Associates (AZ) reported to HHS on 2016-05-19 a Theft affecting 1,067 individuals. Five months' worth of hospital labels containing PHI (names, birthdates, ages, sex, treatment facilities) were stolen from a locked briefcase inside a workforce member physician's car parked offsite. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media; filed a law enforcement report; retrained the physician; and, following OCR investigation, conducted a full risk assessment and updated policies and procedures. Breached information located on Paper/Films.

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.Confirmed1,067 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 19, 2016
Raw hash: 9eedaf52b4bed63d8410207f992fd8ca904bc0c9179fae2e0ed1808af25e95e7

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Emergency Room Associates
norm: emergency room associates
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Emergency Room Associates
norm: emergency room associates
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,067
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation; CE provided assurances of full risk assessment and updated policies and procedures

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

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.