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Health Plus Amerigroup

ArchivedSubmitted 03/01/2013
State
NY
Covered entity type
Business Associate
Individuals affected
28,187
Business associate present
Yes
Type of breach
Theft
Location of breached information
Other Portable Electronic Device
First seen by InfoSec Signals
9/23/2026
Last seen in OCR export
9/23/2026

OCR description

The covered entity's (CE) business associate (BA), Health Plus Amerigroup, mailed an unencrypted compact disk that contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 28,187 individuals to the CE, The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center. OCR closed this breach report and consolidated into an existing breach report filed by OHP PHSP, Inc. regarding the same issues.

Change history

  • 9/23/2026Added to OCR's archive list

Source: HHS OCR Breach Portal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights about this source

Records are reproduced as published; entity names and figures are OCR's.

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