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 Dec. 6, 2013.
- Organization as reported
- Medical Mutual of Ohio, OH
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Dec. 6, 2013
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15248, row:6387)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE) mistakenly included protected health information in two postcard mailings affecting 2,063 individuals. The first mailing included the CE’s patients and second mailing included the patients of other CEs for which the CE acted as the business associate (BA). The PHI involved in the breaches included names, home addresses, and an eleven-digit number (social security number plus two digits). The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE revised mailing procedures, retrained applicable staff, and sanctioned the involved employee. OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE/BA implemented the corrective actions listed above.