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Filing PA-20220121-allegheny-health-network-home-infusionHHS OCR Breach Register, Pennsylvania

Breach filing

Archived

Allegheny Health Network Home Infusion, LLC: 15,342 individuals, Jan 2022.

Allegheny Health Network Home Infusion, LLC reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 21 January 2022. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Pennsylvania and lists 15,342 individuals affected, which makes it the 99th largest of the 339 Pennsylvania filings on the register and the 277th largest of the 718 filings submitted nationally in 2022. Among the 38 Pennsylvania filings made in 2022 it ranks 14th.

Individuals affected

15,342

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$2.45M

Method shown, not disclosed

Rank in PA

99th

of 339 Pennsylvania filings

Rank in 2022

277th

of 718 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
15,342
Breach submission date
21 January 2022
Submission year
2022
Type of breach
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of breached information
Network Server
Business associate present
Yes
Portal status
listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
Rank in Pennsylvania by size
99th of 339
Rank in 2022 nationally
277th of 718
Pennsylvania median filing
3,905 individuals
Register id (derived)
PA-20220121-allegheny-health-network-home-infusion

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Pennsylvania and in 2022

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 228 of the 339 Pennsylvania filings (67%) and on 79% of all filings submitted in 2022. Network Server is the most common location in the state, appearing on 51% of Pennsylvania filings.

A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 34% of Pennsylvania filings. At 15,342 individuals the breach is 3.9 times the Pennsylvania median filing of 3,905 and 3.8 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It sits in the 10,000 to 99,999 band, which holds 1,938 filings.

As of 28 August 2026 the case is listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive. OCR's closing summary of the case is reproduced in full below.

Pennsylvania's breach notification statute (73 Pa. Stat. 2301 et seq.) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: more than 500 Pennsylvania 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 15,342 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 $2.45M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.95M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Allegheny Health Network Home Infusion, LLC. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.4 times the sector average.

Section F.3 / OCR closing summary

The portal's archived description, in full

Written by the Office for Civil Rights when the case was closed and reproduced verbatim from the HHS export.

The covered entity (CE), Allegheny Health Network Home Infusion, reported that its business associate (BA) experienced a ransomware attack affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 15,342 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, claims information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services and its BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect PHI.

Section F.5 / Modelled cost

15,342 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Modelled

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$2.45M

15,342 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$2.95M

15,342 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Allegheny Health Network Home Infusion, LLC 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

Pennsylvania statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Pennsylvania: 73 Pa. Stat. 2301 et seq.

Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (amended by Act 33 of 2024)

Notice to individuals
Without unreasonable delay
Attorney general threshold
More than 500 Pennsylvania residents (Without unreasonable delay (online portal))
Private right of action
Yes: Treated as an unfair or deceptive practice; consumers may pursue civil suits
Penalty
AG enforcement via civil actions, injunctive relief, civil penalties, and restitution

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

Pennsylvania filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Pennsylvania filings in 2022, topped up from other years where 2022 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Rosenfeld VanWirt, PCBusiness Associate18,71916 Nov 2022
Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health CentersHealthcare Provider17,99228 Jan 2022
Altoona Area School DistrictHealth Plan9,19611 Apr 2022
Dr. Douglas C. Shoenberger, PCBusiness Associate8,17930 Nov 2022

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-archive__2026-08-28.csv, export row 2698.

Corrections: if you represent a listed entity and the portal row has been amended, email [email protected] with the portal entry and we will re-pull the export.