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 March 1, 2017.
- Organization as reported
- Stephen P. Courtney, M.D., TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record, Paper/Films
- Submission date
- March 1, 2017
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14255, row:5394)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
OCR conducted an investigation of the breach report filed by Dr. Stephen Courtney on August 29, 2017, after he reported that a former workforce member impermissibly accessed approximately 1,561 patients’ medical records at Plano Orthopedic Sports Medicine & Spine Center (POSMC). Upon discovering the breach, Dr. Courtney filed a Breach Report with HHS and took steps to mitigate the harm. As a result of OCR’s investigation, OCR determined that the appropriate covered entity is POSMC.