Clustered 2 filings across 1 jurisdiction · filed Oct 22, 2019. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_f7be317eff93464e · merge_method deterministic · confidence 94%
Time between earliest and latest filing
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Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
PHI · Health (basic) · Identity (basic)
TX
all HHS OCR
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Kaufman reported to HHS on 2019-10-22 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2157 individuals. Breached information located on Other. A program coding error in the billing system mismatched ePHI (names, health insurance, treatment info) with incorrect accounts. The CE corrected the error and implemented safeguards.
Affected (this filing): 2,157
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville reported to HHS on 2019-10-22 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,348 individuals. Breached information located on Other. A program coding error in the billing system caused ePHI (names, health insurance, treatment info) to be sent to wrong recipients. The CE corrected the error and implemented safeguards.
Affected (this filing): 1,348
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.