Administracion de Seguros de Salud - Triple S Salud Inc (BA)

On March 27, 2014, the covered entity (CE), Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration, also known as the Administracion de Seguros Salud de Puerto Rico, reported that on January 14, 2014, it became aware that sometime before October 9, 2013, a former employee of Triple-S Salud’s business associate (BA), Triple-S Advantage Solutions, copied beneficiaries’ electronic protected health information (ePHI) onto a compact disk which he took home for an unspecified period of time and which he subsequently downloaded onto a computer at his new employer. The ePHI included beneficiary enrollment information, including names, dates of births, contract numbers, health insurance claim number, home addresses, and social security numbers of 54,384 of the CE’s beneficiaries. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Due to OCR’s investigation, the CE committed to conduct a risk analysis, implement a risk management plan, revise its policies and procedures, and re-train its staff within a specified period.