MICHIGANAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Mercy Health Physician Partners

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 10, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

2,487

Confidence

50%

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The covered entity (CE), Mercy Health Physician Partners, reported that its business associate (BA) sent protected health information (PHI) to the wrong recipients. This breach affected 2,487 individuals and the PHI involved included names, addresses, financial information, and clinical data. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and established a toll free number for questions or concerns. In its mitigation efforts, the CE sanctioned the responsible employee, implemented additional administrative safeguards, and retrained its staff on the privacy and security of PHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

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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

Feb 10, 2020

Filed

—

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.Confirmed2,487 affectedView incident

Name: Mercy Health Physician Partners
norm: mercy health physician
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Mercy Health Physician Partners
norm: mercy health physician
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,487nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSNotified affected individualsNotified the mediaOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions

Changes made: Sanctioned the responsible employee
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Retrained its staff on the privacy and security of PHI
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: Feb 10, 2020
Raw hash: aa84ba507e0265b5382332a88868a28a35bb3d65e94394cddcde2587913334dc

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Reporting entityMercy Health Physician Partners

Victim entityMercy Health Physician Partners

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the responsible employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing