TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareProgramming ErrorMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance
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Full breach record for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance →Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance (TX) reported to HHS on 2019-10-22 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3,784 individuals. A program coding error in the billing system caused ePHI to be mismatched with incorrect account guarantors, resulting in PHI (names, health insurance information, and treatment information) being sent to wrong recipients. The CE corrected the coding error and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. Breached information located in: Other.
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.Confirmed3,784 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
- Oct 22, 2019
- Raw hash
- 460c676b77d63056b0c936115e6b5d17f4e72de65628fff09a90cd73a804c224
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliancenorm: texas health harris methodist hospital alliance
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliancenorm: texas health harris methodist hospital alliance
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 3,784
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
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.