OHIOMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Orthowest

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 14, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

2,300

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Orthowest →2 incidents on file

OrthoWest, Ltd. reported to HHS on 2018-05-14 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2300 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A former employee of business associate CoPilot Provider Support Services impermissibly accessed ePHI of 1,287 patients.

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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

May 14, 2018

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Part of CoPilot Provider Support Services supply-chain incident (2017) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,300 affectedView incident

Name: Orthowest
norm: orthowest
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Orthowest
norm: orthowest
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,300nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained assurance that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed
Third party: via CoPilot Provider Support Servicesbusiness associate
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Stopped using the BA's website to verify patients’ insurance benefits
Provided HIPAA training to all of its staff members
Documented the impermissible disclosure in the affected patients’ records for accounting of disclosure purposes
Executed BA agreements with all of its vendors
Conducted a new annual risk analysis of its ePHI
Changes made: Stopped using the BA's website to verify patients’ insurance benefits
Provided HIPAA training to all of its staff members
Executed BA agreements with all of its vendors
Conducted a new annual risk analysis of its ePHI
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: May 14, 2018
Raw hash: 057d2f23d910e9290f3512b9f6bf068a1de404b73b283df126d64fd47c07b74d

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Reporting entityOrthowest

Victim entityOrthowest

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseStopped using the BA's website to verify patients’ insurance benefits

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing