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TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareProgramming ErrorMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance

bd_4a7e924db5925a9e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 22, 2019

To disclose

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Affected

3,784

Confidence

98%
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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Oct 22, 2019

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.Confirmed3,784 affectedView incident

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.