ILLINOISAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Quality Health Claims Consultants, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 6, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

1,573

Confidence

96%

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Quality Health Claims Consultants, LLC (a Business Associate in IL) reported to HHS OCR on 2013-12-06 a breach affecting 1,573 individuals. The BA mailed letters requesting documents containing identifying information; an erroneous fax number listing caused clients to fax their information to the wrong number. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, and social security numbers. Breached information was located on Email/fax. Post-breach, the incorrect faxes were confirmed destroyed and company literature was standardized to require manual data entry.

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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

Dec 6, 2013

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,573 affectedView incident

Name: Quality Health Claims Consultants, LLC
norm: quality health claims consultants
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Quality Health Claims Consultants, LLC
norm: quality health claims consultants
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,573nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR provided guidance to CE to revise its BA agreement

During the incident: BA confirmed any faxes sent to incorrect fax number were destroyed
BA standardized all company literature to require manual data entry of client-specific contact information for quality control
OCR provided information to assist the CE to revise its BA agreement
Changes made: Manual data entry requirement for client-specific contact information
BA agreement revised with OCR guidance
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: Dec 6, 2013
Raw hash: 4456976593ced09c61fffe12eb21b17192c5dc7b29b6dc29e8228d8ab537c170

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Reporting entityQuality Health Claims Consultants, LLC

Victim entityQuality Health Claims Consultants, LLC

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseBA confirmed any faxes sent to incorrect fax number were destroyed

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing