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 22, 2023.
- Organization as reported
- Desert Physicians Management, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- June 22, 2023
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10638, row:1777)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Desert Physicians Management, reported that it experienced a cybersecurity incident that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 63,713 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, medications, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the BA provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. Staff were retrained.