TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTLowResolved
Austin Pulmonary Consultants
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Full breach record for Austin Pulmonary Consultants →Austin Pulmonary Consultants (TX) reported to HHS on 2016-11-07 an Improper Disposal incident affecting 889 individuals. Papers containing PHI were improperly disposed of by the covered entity's cleaning crew. PHI involved included clinical, demographic, and financial information (Paper/Films). The CE notified affected individuals, media, and HHS; updated HIPAA policies; retrained staff; improved shred bin safeguards; and cancelled cleaning services of the crew involved. OCR obtained corrective action assurances.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed889 affectedView incident
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
- Nov 7, 2016
- Raw hash
- 04c9574528ac9703c22c06c18929f8c6f53361422a649268d635698432877d26
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Austin Pulmonary Consultantsnorm: austin pulmonary consultants
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Austin Pulmonary Consultantsnorm: austin pulmonary consultants
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 889
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions.
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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.