MISSOURIMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

The MS Center of Saint Louis

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 17, 2017

Filed

Sep 16, 2017

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

1,081

Confidence

50%

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On July 17, 2017, The MS Center of Saint Louis and Mercy Clinic Neurology - Town and Country discovered that staff had been completing and signing patient medication onboarding forms, which contained demographic and clinical information, and submitting them to pharmaceutical companies without patient authorization. This unauthorized disclosure affected 1,081 individuals. In response, the practice was stopped, the responsible employees were sanctioned, new procedures were adopted, and staff were retrained. The MS Center of Saint Louis ceased operations on March 30, 2018.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified9 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 61 days

Jul 17, 2017

Discovered

Sep 16, 2017

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,081 affectedView incident

Name: The MS Center of Saint Louis
norm: the ms center of saint louis
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: The MS Center of Saint Louis
norm: the ms center of saint louis
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Jul 17, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,081nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained documented assurances that the CEs implemented the above-listed voluntary corrective action steps.

During the incident: Immediately required staff to stop this practice.
Changes made: Sanctioned the employee responsible for the breach and the supervising physician.
Adopted a new procedure for completing the medication onboarding forms.
Began monitoring compliance with the new procedure.
Retrained staff and required staff to sign confidentiality acknowledgments.
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(61 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Jul 17, 2017
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jul 17, 2017 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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Leak-site claim

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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: Sep 16, 2017
Raw hash: 6ec6665996bdde2e6c6f4f2efa7366eceaac0040b4f6b8a368c8790032937187

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Reporting entityThe MS Center of Saint Louis

Victim entityThe MS Center of Saint Louis

Incidentdiscovered Jul 17, 2017

Stated responseImmediately required staff to stop this practice.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing