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 July 1, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Professional Business Systems, Inc., d/b/a Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions and PBS Medcode Corp.,, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 1, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12038, row:3177)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Professional Business Systems dba Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions, reported that it experienced a ransomware incident that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 1,210,688 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, clinical information, and financial information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI. Staff were also retrained on obligations to protect and secure PHI.