ARIZONAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Emergency Room Associates

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 19, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

1,067

Confidence

97%

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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.

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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 19, 2016

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.Confirmed1,067 affectedView incident

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

Name: Emergency Room Associates
norm: emergency room associates
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Emergency Room Associatesdba oflegal entity
Emergency Medicine Associatesdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,067nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
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

During the incident: Filed report with local law enforcement
Retrained the workforce member physician involved
Conducted full risk assessment
Reviewed and updated policies and procedures
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and media
Changes made: Full risk assessment conducted
Policies and procedures reviewed and updated
Workforce retraining on handling of 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 19, 2016
Raw hash: 9eedaf52b4bed63d8410207f992fd8ca904bc0c9179fae2e0ed1808af25e95e7

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Reporting entityEmergency Room Associates

Victim entityEmergency Room Associates

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseFiled report with local law enforcement

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing