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 11, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Master Equity Texas Limited Partnership, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Clearing House
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- May 11, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12158, row:3297)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Master Equity Texas Limited Partnership dba Emerging-Solutions, reported that an employee impermissibly sent an Excel file to a physician’s practice that contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of an additional 1,962 individuals that were not a part of the physician’s practice. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS and affected individuals. In its mitigation efforts, the CE strengthened its administrative safeguards and retrained its staff.