The federal agency that manages Medicare warned that a subcontractor suffered a data breach that might involve “beneficiaries’ personally identifiable information” or “protected health information.”
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that a federal subcontractor, Healthcare Management Solutions, suffered the breach. No CMS systems were impacted and no data around Medicare claims were involved.
Information sourced by CMS suggests that Healthcare Management Solutions “acted in violation of its obligations to CMS and that the incident involving” the company could impact as many as 254,000 Medicare “beneficiaries’ personally identifiable information out of the over 64 million beneficiaries that CMS serves,” according to a news release….