TEXASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Business Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Northstar Healthcare Acquisitions LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 28, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

19,898

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Northstar Healthcare Acquisitions LLC →

A laptop containing ePHI of 19,898 individuals was stolen from the vehicle of an employee of Equalize Revenue Cycle Management (ERCM), a business associate of covered entity Northstar Healthcare Acquisitions, LLC. The ePHI included insurance, treatment, and demographic information. ERCM notified law enforcement, the affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice via its website, and offered one year of free credit monitoring. Remediation included adopting encryption, revising policies, conducting an updated risk analysis, sanctioning workforce members, and retraining employees. OCR verified corrective actions and the existence of a proper BA agreement.

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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 28, 2016

Filed

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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.Confirmed19,898 affectedView incident

Name: Northstar Healthcare Acquisitions LLC
norm: northstar healthcare acquisitions

Name: Northstar Healthcare Acquisitions LLC
norm: northstar healthcare acquisitions
Industry: Healthcare Provider
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 19,898nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances of corrective actionOCR verified CE had a proper BA agreement in place
Third party: via Equalize Revenue Cycle Management (ERCM)

During the incident: Business associate informed law enforcement
Notified affected individuals
Provided substitute notice via website
Issued media notification
Offered one year of free credit monitoring
Changes made: Adopted encryption technologies
Revised policies and procedures
Conducted updated risk analysis
Sanctioned workforce members involved
Retrained employees
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 28, 2016
Raw hash: 5c2eb86c438df595b5b276de3d4a6ffad85c2ddd9e4086913bda88c022f7b90c

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Reporting entityNorthstar Healthcare Acquisitions LLC

Victim entityNorthstar Healthcare Acquisitions LLC

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseBusiness associate informed law enforcement

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing