PAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Geisinger Health Plan
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Full breach record for Geisinger Health Plan →Between July 30 and August 4, 2016, Geisinger Health Plan misdirected invoices to incorrect recipients, exposing PHI (clinical and demographic information) of 2,814 individuals. The covered entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, offered credit monitoring, and offered to change health plan member numbers for affected individuals. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented. Breach submitted to HHS on 2016-09-07. Breached information located on: Other.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified6 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,814 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
- Sep 7, 2016
- Raw hash
- b8a91b59e9d7763487a4334aa839cf06f09f95cac6a806cfd6eafcc27a257ba4
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Geisinger Health Plannorm: geisinger health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Geisinger Health Plannorm: geisinger health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 30, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,814
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the covered entity implemented corrective actions
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(39 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Jul 30, 2016→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.