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Filing VA-20140410-amerigroup-texasHHS OCR Breach Register, Virginia

Breach filing

Archived

Amerigroup Texas, Inc.: 75,026 individuals, Apr 2014.

Amerigroup Texas, Inc. reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 10 April 2014. The filing records the organisation as a business associate in Virginia and lists 75,026 individuals affected, which makes it the 20th largest of the 157 Virginia filings on the register and the 16th largest of the 314 filings submitted nationally in 2014. Among the 8 Virginia filings made in 2014 it ranks 1st.

Individuals affected

75,026

As reported to HHS

Modelled cost (IBM 2025)

$12.0M

Method shown, not disclosed

Rank in VA

20th

of 157 Virginia filings

Rank in 2014

16th

of 314 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
Business Associate
Individuals affected
75,026
Breach submission date
10 April 2014
Submission year
2014
Type of breach
Theft
Location of breached information
Paper/Films
Business associate present
Yes
Portal status
listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
Rank in Virginia by size
20th of 157
Rank in 2014 nationally
16th of 314
Virginia median filing
4,441 individuals
Register id (derived)
VA-20140410-amerigroup-texas

Section F.2 / In context

Where this filing sits in Virginia and in 2014

OCR classifies the incident as theft, with the breached information held in paper records or films. Theft is the type recorded on 19 of the 157 Virginia filings (12%) and on 41% of all filings submitted in 2014. Paper/Films appears on 8% of Virginia filings.

A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 39% of Virginia filings. At 75,026 individuals the breach is 17 times the Virginia median filing of 4,441 and 19 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.

Virginia's breach notification statute (Va. Code 18.2-186.6) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: all breaches (concurrent with individual notice). 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 75,026 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 $12.0M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $14.4M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Amerigroup Texas, Inc.. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 2.2 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.

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Section F.5 / Modelled cost

75,026 individuals through IBM's per-record figures

Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost

Modelled

IBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record

$12.0M

75,026 x $160

IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record

$14.4M

75,026 x $192

Method: individuals affected, as reported by Amerigroup Texas, Inc. 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

Virginia statute and the HIPAA rule

State notification statute

Virginia: Va. Code 18.2-186.6

Notice to individuals
Without unreasonable delay
Attorney general threshold
All breaches (concurrent with individual notice) (Concurrent with individual notification)
Private right of action
Limited: Individuals may recover direct economic damages (no non-economic damages)
Penalty
AG may impose civil penalties up to $150,000 per breach

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

Virginia filings closest in size

Neighbours by size rank among Virginia filings in 2014, topped up from other years where 2014 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.

Covered entityTypeIndividualsSubmitted
Democracy Data & Communications, LLC (Business Associate83,0008 Dec 2009
Cardiology Associates of FredericksburgHealthcare Provider75,47617 Apr 2025
Sentara HealthcareHealthcare Provider72,12119 Nov 2021
Virginia Premier Health Plan (VPHP)Business Associate25,51310 Jan 2014
NOVA Chiropractic & Rehab CenterHealthcare Provider5,53427 Mar 2014

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 6162.

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