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 Oct. 19, 2015.
- Organization as reported
- BeHealthy Florida, Inc., FL
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Oct. 19, 2015
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14685, row:5824)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On September 23, 2015, the covered entity’s (CE) business associate (BA), RR Donnelly, inadvertently placed individuals' health insurance claim number (HICN) on the outside of envelopes containing benefit information packets that were mailed to the CE's members. The HICN is a Medicare beneficiary's identification number and it typically contains the beneficiary's social security number. The breach affected 835 individuals. The CE, BeHealthy, Florida, provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE discussed with the BA the development of a standard procedure for any ad hoc manual member mailings, to be used in the event automated processes are unavailable. It also made processing and procedural changes to prevent similar breaches in the future. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.