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. 10, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Oct. 10, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9119, row:258)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group, reported that an employee mailed the protected health information of 2,329 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals and the media. In response to the breach, the CE sanctioned the employee involved and retrained its workforce members to better protect its PHI.