FLORIDAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Medium

American Anesthesiology, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 4, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

1,000

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for American Anesthesiology, Inc. →2 incidents on file

American Anesthesiology, Inc. reported to HHS on 2013-12-04 a breach where its business associate, Financial Imaging, LLC, erroneously mailed 1,000 patient invoices to the wrong recipients. The breach involved patient names, dates of service, and procedures from paper records. The business associate retrained staff and revised its quality assurance processes in response.

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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 4, 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.Confirmed1,000 affectedView incident

Name: American Anesthesiology, Inc.
norm: american anesthesiology
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: American Anesthesiology, Inc.
norm: american anesthesiology
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,000nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Third party: via Financial Imaging, LLC

During the incident: Business associate sent breach notification letters to affected individuals
Changes made: Revised quality assurance process to ensure accuracy of future print jobs
Counseled and retrained staff involved in the breach
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 4, 2013
Raw hash: acaf8a2a45b398d3a06ae69cc9f6dc8ed8154e158d47da7d591028d1bc383267

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Reporting entityAmerican Anesthesiology, Inc.

Victim entityAmerican Anesthesiology, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBusiness associate sent breach notification letters to affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing