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 June 15, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Choice Health Management Services, LLC, NC
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 15, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12829, row:3968)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Choice Health Management Services, LLC, the business associate (BA), reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 8,692 individuals. The ePHI involved included addresses, dates of birth, names, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license numbers, health insurance information, and financial and treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. The BA also offered one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services to affected individuals. In response to the breach, the BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its employees on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.