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. 29, 2020.
- Organization as reported
- Superior HealthPlan, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Dec. 29, 2020
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12421, row:3560)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Superior HealthPlan, reported that an employee of its business associate (BA) inadvertently mailed documents containing the protected health information (PHI) of 3,748 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the BA implemented additional quality assurance checks for mailings and retrained its staff on the modified processes.