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 Oct. 22, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- Oct. 22, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13164, row:4303)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance, the covered entity (CE), reported that a program coding error within its billing system allowed electronic protected health information (ePHI) to be mismatched with the incorrect account guarantor. This led to PHI being sent to the wrong recipients. This breach affected 3,784 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, health insurance information, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, the CE corrected the program coding error and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to prevent future incidents of this nature.