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 Sept. 6, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Health Care Service Corporation, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Sept. 6, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13237, row:4376)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), the covered entity (CE), reported that Universal Printing Company (UPC), the business associate (BA) of TMG Health, Inc., its BA, mismatched the protected health information (PHI) of 998 individuals; and consequently, PHI was mailed to the wrong recipients. HCSC notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. Following the breach, TMG implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect sensitive data. OCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective actions noted.