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New West Health Services

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New West Health Services d/b/a New West Medicare (Health Plan, MT) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-01-15 a Loss affecting 28,209 individuals. An employee's unencrypted laptop was stolen from a hotel meeting room. Breached ePHI included demographic info, SSNs, Medicare claim numbers, financial information, diagnoses, medical histories, and prescription data. The CE notified affected individuals and media, offered free credit monitoring, recalled and encrypted all laptops, added geo-location and remote-wipe capabilities, retrained staff, and sanctioned the involved employee. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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.

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bd_a736a2b4b879b434Montana State AGfiled 2016-01-15Candidate

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: Jan 15, 2016
Raw hash: 1445dd534dc5341eb711d890201d3b7469e739969911af2a78c2e03a8e9b7507

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: New West Health Services
norm: new west health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Victim entity

Name: New West Health Services
norm: new west health
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 28,209
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTFINANCIAL
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR opened investigation; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

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

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.