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 May 22, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, MD
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- May 22, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12874, row:4013)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc., reported that an employee impermissibly accessed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 2,756 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In its mitigation efforts, the CE sanctioned the employee involved and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI.