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TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareProgramming ErrorMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 22, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

2,113

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle →2 incidents on file

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle reported to HHS on 2019-10-22 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,113 individuals. A program coding error in its billing system caused ePHI to be mismatched with incorrect account guarantors, resulting in PHI (names, health insurance information, treatment information) being sent to wrong recipients. Breached information located in 'Other' location type.

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.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,113 affectedView incident

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.