ARKANSASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountPHIHighResolved

SAMA HealthCare Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 12, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

7,524

Confidence

98%

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SAMA HealthCare Services (AR) reported to HHS on 2020-02-12 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 7,524 individuals. The covered entity's business associate spilled documents onto a road, exposing PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, SSNs, claims/financial information, diagnoses, lab results, and medication info stored on Paper/Films. The CE terminated its BA contract and implemented OCR-directed corrective actions.

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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

Feb 12, 2020

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.Confirmed7,524 affectedView incident

Name: SAMA HealthCare Services
norm: sama healthcare
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: SAMA HealthCare Services
norm: sama healthcare
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7,524nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountPHI
HHS breach type: Improper disposal
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance to the CE and obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

During the incident: CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website.
CE terminated its contract with the business associate following the breach.
Changes made: Contract with business associate terminated.
Corrective actions implemented as confirmed to OCR.
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: Feb 12, 2020
Raw hash: 276f738908a82c2a0de4e301dc83a6278a97c7c63d2ff5bb4ff07d3623df0246

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Reporting entitySAMA HealthCare Services

Victim entitySAMA HealthCare Services

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseCE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing