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
- Quality Health Claims Consultants, LLC, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Theft
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 6, 2013
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15247, row:6386)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The Covered Entity's (CE) Business Associate (BA) mailed letters to their clients to request certain documents containing identifying information. An erroneous fax number listing caused some clients to fax their information to the wrong number. Approximately 1,573 individuals were affected by the breach. The protected health information (PHI) involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, and social security numbers. Following the breach, the BA confirmed that any faxes sent to the incorrect fax number were destroyed. The BA also standardized all company literature to require manual data entry of client-specific contact information to assure quality control. OCR provided information to assist the CE to revise its BA agreement. \ \