Health plan breach reported

More than 900 Texas Children’s Health Plan members’ personal and medical information may have been compromised in a security breach late last year.

Affected members of the insurance plan, which consists of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program patients, were notified by mail on Friday.

Last month, a review of the insurance plan revealed that a former employee had emailed batches of member information from her office to a personal email account in November and December against company policy. The employee has been fired.

“We have no indication that any of the member information has been used inappropriately,” a spokeswoman for the plan said Friday.

The statement added,

however, that the notification of potentially affected members was being done as an abundance of caution.

“The privacy of our members is a top priority,” the spokeswoman said.

The 932 members who are believed to have been part of the security breach represent just 0.2 percent of the overall 462,00 members of the health plan.

Included in the potentially compromised information are patient names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and other account information. In a small number of cases, medical record numbers, diagnoses and clinical information was included, the spokeswoman said.

Social Security numbers and financial information were not included.

Law enforcement has been notified.

The health plan has established a call center for more information. Members who have not received a letter by Nov. 10 but believe they are affected are encouraged to call 877-9196843 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.