WVAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
Amedisys West Virginia, LLC
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Full breach record for Amedisys West Virginia, LLC →Amedisys West Virginia, LLC reported to HHS on 2017-04-11 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 611 individuals. The BA Iron Mountain, through its subcontractor D&M, improperly disposed of two unlocked shred bins containing PHI (paper/films). PHI exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Corrective actions included elimination of subcontractor use and improved shred bin security. OCR reviewed risk analysis and BA agreements.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed611 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 11, 2017
- Raw hash
- bdaae77ac488c9b48182f59fbc2ec39b77776daa0c55039096b43fd25d3425e9
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Amedisys West Virginia, LLCnorm: amedisys west virginia
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Amedisys West Virginia, LLCnorm: amedisys west virginia
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 611
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration· Iron Mountain / D&M
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR reviewed CE's risk analysis and BA agreements for compliance with Privacy and Security RulesOCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
- Third party
- via Iron Mountain (subcontractor: D&M)
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.