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. 26, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc., TN
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 26, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9057, row:196)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, Inc., the business associate (BA), reported that an employee of its covered entity (CE) mailed the protected health information of 780 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved demographic and financial information. In its mitigation efforts, the CE assured the BA that it mailed notification letters to all affected individuals and retrained workforce members.