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 Sept. 23, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- WellMed Medical Management, TX
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record, Network Server
- Submission date
- Sept. 23, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11184, row:2323)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), WellMed Medical Management, reported that an employee and a former employee impermissibly accessed the protected health information (PHI) of 10,506 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards, The CE also sanctioned the workforce member involved in the breach and retrained all employees to better protect its PHI.