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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.

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

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

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
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.