TEXASHHS OCRFirst filing
Filed Jun 15, 2017bd_ec6110ab44d58fc6
Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-06-15 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 1,842 individuals. A workforce member improperly discarded several boxes of PHI into a public dumpster. Not all boxes were retrieved. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, and treatment information. HHSC sanctioned the employee, retrained all staff on PHI disposal, notified affected individuals and media, and offered one year of free credit monitoring.
Affected (this filing): 1,842
HHS notified