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. 19, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC PROFESSIONALS, LLC, MN
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Other
- Submission date
- Dec. 19, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13595, row:4734)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, the covered entity (CE), reported that its billing software, provided by a business associate (BA), contained an error that was used from July 19, 2018, through October 26, 2018. As a result, the protected health information (PHI) of 846 individuals was directed to the wrong guarantor and/or insurance company. During the investigation of the breach, the CE discovered another error in the same billing software used from May 24, 2018, through October 26, 2018. As a result, the PHI of 2,568 individuals was directed to the wrong recipients. OCR has consolidated all issues from the initial breach into an investigation of the subsequent breach.