WEST VIRGINIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Rural Health Access Corporation

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 6, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

874

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Rural Health Access Corporation →

Rural Health Access Corporation dba Coalfield Health Center reported to HHS on 2019-09-06 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 874 individuals. Business associate Quality Insights shared PHI — names, addresses, and treatment information — with the WV Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Public Health without de-identification and without a business associate agreement in place. The PHI was subsequently destroyed by the recipient.

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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

Sep 6, 2019

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed874 affectedView incident

Name: Rural Health Access Corporation
norm: rural health access
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Rural Health Access Corporation
norm: rural health access
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Rural Health Access Corporationdba oflegal entity
Coalfield Health Centerdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 874nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via Quality Insights

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
PHI was destroyed by the recipient (WV Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Public Health)
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: Sep 6, 2019
Raw hash: 91a3114432290ffd2918cbb7fa32bcd041b956173b1c12ebe8281cd577bc7abf

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Reporting entityRural Health Access Corporation

Victim entityRural Health Access Corporation

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing