TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryProgramming ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Preventice Services, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 7, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

6,800

Confidence

98%

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Preventice Services, LLC (TX) reported to HHS on 2016-12-07 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting approximately 6,800 individuals. Business associate Zirmed, Inc. erroneously mailed notices containing other patients' names and dates of service due to a programming error by its sub-contractor, Allison Payment Systems (APS). The CE worked with the BA to correct the error and add technical safeguards. OCR confirmed appropriate BA agreements were in place and that required breach notifications were completed, including substitute notice posted on CE's website.

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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

Dec 7, 2016

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,800 affectedView incident

Name: Preventice Services, LLC
norm: preventice services
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Preventice Services, LLC
norm: preventice services
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,800nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR confirmed appropriate BA agreements were in place prior to breachOCR provided technical assistance regarding media notification requirementsOCR confirmed CE completed required breach notifications including substitute notice posting on website
Third party: via Zirmed, Inc. / Allison Payment Systems (APS)

During the incident: Covered entity provided breach notification to HHS and affected individuals
Worked with BA and sub-contractor to correct the programming error
Added an additional technical safeguard
Posted substitute notice on website
Changes made: Programming error corrected by Allison Payment Systems (APS)
Additional technical safeguard implemented
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

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: Dec 7, 2016
Raw hash: a1120eca49ceedb3be059ed8dfbe84607d6acf4c48a5f25659981a57307c294c

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Reporting entityPreventice Services, LLC

Victim entityPreventice Services, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseCovered entity provided breach notification to HHS and affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing