HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Dec. 29, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Ambetter for Arizona Complete Health, AZ
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Dec. 29, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12420, row:3559)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Ambetter for Arizona Complete Health, reported that its business associate (BA) inadvertently mailed documents containing the protected health information (PHI) of 518 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the BA strengthened its administrative safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. OCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective actions noted.