MARYLANDAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 7, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

10,011

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services →4 incidents on file

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (MD) reported to HHS on 2023-04-07 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 10,011 individuals. A business associate employee inadvertently mailed PHI — including names, addresses, claims information, diagnoses, and other treatment information — to the wrong recipients via paper/films. The BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards in response. Affected individuals, the media, and HHS were notified; substitute notice was provided.

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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

Apr 7, 2023

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.Confirmed10,011 affectedView incident

Name: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
norm: centers for medicare medicaid
Domain: cms.gov
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
norm: centers for medicare medicaid
Domain: cms.gov
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 10,011nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notificationmedia notificationsubstitute notice provided

During the incident: Business associate implemented additional administrative safeguards
Business associate implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented by BA
Additional technical safeguards implemented by BA
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: Apr 7, 2023
Raw hash: e8c1754b5ff3a1d8addceaa91003d85335ae7be0dafbabd7ec412f939f47b0ec

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Reporting entityCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Victim entityCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBusiness associate implemented additional administrative safeguards

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing