IOWAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MinorHighContained

Amerigroup Iowa, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jan 29, 2019

Filed

Mar 29, 2019

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1,191

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Amerigroup Iowa, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Amerigroup Iowa, Inc. reported to HHS on 2019-03-29 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1191 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The business associate erroneously mailed letters containing incorrect parent/guardian names to minor members, exposing demographic and clinical PHI. The incident resulted from human error.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS report on time8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Jan 29, 2019

Discovered

Mar 29, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,191 affectedView incident

Name: Amerigroup Iowa, Inc.
norm: amerigroup iowa
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Amerigroup Iowa, Inc.
norm: amerigroup iowa
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Jan 29, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,191nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Minor
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Third party: via Iowa Department of Public Healthbusiness associate

During the incident: Sanctioned and retrained the responsible employee
Revised its procedure for generating a member mailing list
Trained all workforce member on its updated procedure
Changes made: Revised its procedure for generating a member mailing list
Trained all workforce member on its updated procedure
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report on timeHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Jan 29, 2019
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Jan 29, 2019
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 29, 2019 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 29, 2019 → 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: Mar 29, 2019
Raw hash: ae150139e4c246f7aafc2dbd021a4b1cb8bf8f77202493afe1b9e397cb4eed10

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Reporting entityAmerigroup Iowa, Inc.

Victim entityAmerigroup Iowa, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 29, 2019

Stated responseSanctioned and retrained the responsible employee

ComplianceHHS report on time

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing