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Filing CO-20241113-rocky-mountain-gastroenterology-associatHHS OCR Breach Register, Colorado

Breach filing

Under investigation

Rocky Mountain Gastroenterology Associates PLLC: 366,491 individuals, Nov 2024.

Rocky Mountain Gastroenterology Associates PLLC reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 13 November 2024. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Colorado and lists 366,491 individuals affected, which makes it the 8th largest of the 139 Colorado filings on the register and the 59th largest of the 741 filings submitted nationally in 2024. Among the 15 Colorado filings made in 2024 it ranks 3rd.

Individuals affected

366,491

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$58.6M

Upper bound, method shown

Rank in CO

8th

of 139 Colorado filings

Rank in 2024

59th

of 741 filings nationally

Section F.1 / The filing

As posted by HHS OCR

Every value below is the portal's own field for this filing, plus its rank within the register.

Covered entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
366,491
Breach submission date
13 November 2024
Submission year
2024
Type of breach
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of breached information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
Portal status
listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation
Rank in Colorado by size
8th of 139
Rank in 2024 nationally
59th of 741
Colorado median filing
3,845 individuals
Register id (derived)
CO-20241113-rocky-mountain-gastroenterology-associat

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Colorado and in 2024

OCR classifies the incident as a hacking or IT incident, with the breached information held in a network server. Hacking/IT Incident is the type recorded on 83 of the 139 Colorado filings (60%) and on 83% of all filings submitted in 2024. Network Server appears on 45% of Colorado filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 24% of Colorado filings do involve one. At 366,491 individuals the breach is 95 times the Colorado median filing of 3,845 and 92 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It is one of 801 filings of 100,000 or more individuals.

As of 28 August 2026 the case is listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation. OCR has not published a closing summary, so this page is limited to the fields on the filing itself; the archive entry that follows a closed investigation usually adds a short account of what was exposed and what the entity did afterwards.

Colorado's breach notification statute (C.R.S. 6-1-716) requires notice to affected residents within 30 days of determining a breach occurred. Its attorney general threshold: 500 or more Colorado residents. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule ran alongside it: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery, which is the clock that put this filing on the portal.

Multiplying 366,491 individuals by IBM's $160 customer-PII cost per record (Cost of a Data Breach 2025, the figure the site's calculator uses) gives a modelled $58.6M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $70.4M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Rocky Mountain Gastroenterology Associates PLLC. Because the filing is above the roughly 100,000-record range in which the per-record figure is reliable, the result is an upper bound, not an estimate: fixed costs are spread across far more records at this scale.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

366,491 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Upper bound

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$58.6M

366,491 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$70.4M

366,491 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Rocky Mountain Gastroenterology Associates PLLC to HHS, multiplied by IBM's customer-PII cost per record (Cost of a Data Breach 2025 Figure 6 and the 2026 edition). No cost has been disclosed by the entity for this filing; the figure is a planning estimate, not a fact about the breach. IBM's per-record figures come from mid-volume breaches and IBM cautions against applying them to breaches involving millions of records; the site's per-record page explains where the multiplication holds and where it breaks down.

Context: IBM's average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M in the 2026 report ($7.42M in 2025); the global average across all sectors was $4.44M in 2025.

Cost per record: method and limits / Healthcare breach cost, IBM 2026

Section F.6 / Notification clock

Colorado statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Colorado: C.R.S. 6-1-716

Notice to individuals
Within 30 days of determining a breach occurred
Attorney general threshold
500 or more Colorado residents (Within the same 30-day window)
Private right of action
No: Only the Colorado Attorney General may enforce
Penalty
Treated as a deceptive trade practice; up to $20,000 per violation with no aggregate cap

The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule runs alongside the state statute: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery.

Section F.7 / Peer filings

Colorado filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Colorado filings in 2024, topped up from other years where 2024 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Summit Pathology and Summit Pathology Laboratories, Inc.OpenHealthcare Provider1,813,53818 Oct 2024
Panorama EyecareHealthcare Provider377,9115 Jun 2024
Delta County Memorial Hospital District (Delta Health)Healthcare Provider148,36329 Jul 2024
Conceptions Reproductive Associates of ColoradoOpenHealthcare Provider80,00025 Nov 2024

Index / Companion schedules

Provenance

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, Breach Portal (breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-08-28. Public domain. Individuals affected and dates as reported by the covered entity.

Portal: ocrportal.hhs.gov breach report. Statutory basis: HITECH Act section 13402(e)(4): the Secretary must post a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals. Breaches affecting fewer than 500 individuals are reported to OCR annually and are not posted, so they are not on this register. Status wording follows the portal's two tabs ("Cases Currently Under Investigation" and "Archive") as of 28 August 2026; a filing moves to the archive when OCR closes the case. Modelled costs on this site are a method applied to the reported count, using IBM Cost of a Data Breach per-record figures, and are never a cost disclosed by the entity. This row: hhs-breach-under-investigation__2026-08-28.csv, export row 670.

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