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OH: Springfield Regional Medical Center patients notified of #HIPAA breach due to mailing error

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Dissent

Katie Wedell reports:

Community Mercy Health Partners, operator of the Springfield Regional Medical Center, has alerted patients to a data breach that occurred in February.

Invoices for about 2,000 patients containing names, addresses, billing codes such as diagnosis and procedural codes, service dates and locations, and account balances were inadvertently sent to incorrect people.

Read more on Springfield News-Sun.


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