TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 22, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,348

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville →

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville reported to HHS on 2019-10-22 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,348 individuals. Breached information located on Other. A program coding error in the billing system caused ePHI (names, health insurance, treatment info) to be sent to wrong recipients. The CE corrected the error and implemented safeguards.

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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

Oct 22, 2019

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_066f24d95c14cdd32019-10-22Candidate

Name: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville
norm: texas health harris methodist hospital stephenville
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville
norm: texas health harris methodist hospital stephenville
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,348nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice on its website
Changes made: Corrected the program coding error
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCROct 22 · first

HHS OCROct 22 · first · this page

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: Oct 22, 2019
Raw hash: f78e6bfe425e6cb4cc6d3fe89c3bab0735ad2e2e828f0851f5c1e91e4d907a7d

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTexas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville

Victim entityTexas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing