TENNESSEEAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

VOLUNTEER STATE HEALTH PLAN, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 26, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,435

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for VOLUNTEER STATE HEALTH PLAN, INC. →2 incidents on file

Volunteer State Health Plan, Inc. d/b/a BlueCare Tennessee reported to HHS on 2021-02-26 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,435 individuals. An employee inadvertently sent text messages containing ePHI (names and health insurance information). Breached information located on Other. Business associate present.

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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

Feb 26, 2021

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.Confirmed1,435 affectedView incident

Name: VOLUNTEER STATE HEALTH PLAN, INC.
norm: volunteer state health plan
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: VOLUNTEER STATE HEALTH PLAN, INC.
norm: volunteer state health plan
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Volunteer State Health Plan, Inc.dba oflegal entity
BlueCare Tennesseedba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,435nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Revised its policies and procedures
Retrained its staff to better protect its ePHI
Changes made: Revised its policies and procedures
Retrained its staff to better protect its ePHI
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: Feb 26, 2021
Raw hash: 994cf18dfeab6d5e25b3e059d3aa5f0e1c514a53d7432d43174f6b32c602af97

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Reporting entityVOLUNTEER STATE HEALTH PLAN, INC.

Victim entityVOLUNTEER STATE HEALTH PLAN, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing