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 Jan. 28, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Prime Therapeutics, LLC, MN
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Jan. 28, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12379, row:3518)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Prime Therapeutics, LLC, reported that an employee inadvertently mailed documents containing the protected health information (PHI) of 1,863 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names, addresses, and medication information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the BA instituted additional quality assurance checks for mailings and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.