Cogent Healthcare

Cogent Healthcare, Inc., a business associate (BA) providing management services for 24 providers of hospitalist services, submitted a breach report to HHS on behalf of these covered entities. The BA's privacy officer found that protected health information (PHI) for which the BA was responsible was accessible on a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Internet site. The PHI involved in the breach affected approximately 32,151 individuals and included patients' names, physicians' names, dates of birth, diagnoses, treatment summaries, medical histories, medical record numbers and related information. \ \OCR determined that the reporting entity is a BA and the incident occurred prior to the September 23, 2013, enforcement date. OCR provided the BA with technical assistance regarding current HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule BA requirements. \ \