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 Nov. 17, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc., CA
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- Nov. 17, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11044, row:2183)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, reported that one of its employees inappropriately accessed the protected health information (PHI) of 8,556 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the responsible employee was sanctioned and the CE provided additional training to its staff in order to avoid similar situations in the future.