NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumResolved

Independent Health Association, Inc.

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Independent Health Association, Inc. (NY Health Plan) reported to HHS OCR on 2019-05-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 7,605 individuals. An employee accidentally emailed documents containing ePHI — including names, diagnoses, claims data, clinical information, treatment information, and financial information — to the wrong recipient via email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, sanctioned the employee, retrained staff, and implemented new administrative safeguards. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

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.Confirmed7,605 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: May 8, 2019
Raw hash: 9425c78573d35b43934b655b58533e81c11131ffcc8ac026f629218c4651f66e

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Independent Health Association, Inc.
norm: independent health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Victim entity

Name: Independent Health Association, Inc.
norm: independent health
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7,605
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.
Initial access: insider_action

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

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.