Breach filing
ArchivedApplied Healthcare Nursing Division, Inc. d/b/a Doctor's Choice Home Care: 14,333 individuals, Sep 2026.
Applied Healthcare Nursing Division, Inc. d/b/a Doctor's Choice Home Care reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 19 September 2026. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Texas and lists 14,333 individuals affected, which makes it the 203rd largest of the 662 Texas filings on the register and the 180th largest of the 637 filings submitted nationally in 2026. Among the 66 Texas filings made in 2026 it ranks 21st.
Individuals affected
14,333
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$2.29M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in TX
203rd
of 662 Texas filings
Rank in 2026
180th
of 637 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
- 14,333
- Breach submission date
- 19 September 2026
- Submission year
- 2026
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Electronic Medical Record, Network Server
- Business associate present
- Yes
- State
- Texas (TX)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Texas by size
- 203rd of 662
- Rank in 2026 nationally
- 180th of 637
- Texas median filing
- 4,083 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- TX-20260919-applied-healthcare-nursing-division-d-b
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Texas and in 2026
OCR classifies the incident as a hacking or IT incident, with the breached information held in an electronic medical record system and a network server. Hacking/IT Incident is the type recorded on 387 of the 662 Texas filings (58%) and on 86% of all filings submitted in 2026. Electronic Medical Record appears on 6% of Texas filings.
A business associate is recorded as present on the filing, as it is on 26% of Texas filings. At 14,333 individuals the breach is 3.5 times the Texas median filing of 4,083 and 3.6 times the national median of 4,013 across all 8,092 filings. It sits in the 10,000 to 99,999 band, which holds 1,996 filings.
As of 12 November 2026 the case is listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive. OCR's closing summary of the case is reproduced in full below.
Texas's breach notification statute (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 521.053) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay, no later than the 60th day after determining a breach occurred. Its attorney general threshold: 250 or more Texas 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 14,333 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 $2.29M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.75M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Applied Healthcare Nursing Division, Inc. d/b/a Doctor's Choice Home Care. 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), Applied Healthcare Nursing Division, Inc. d/b/a Doctor's Choice Home Care, reported that it was notified by its business associate (BA), Wellsky Corporation, that the BA experienced a breach involving access to its network by an unauthorized threat actor. According to the breach report, the breach affected approximately 14,333 individuals. Protected health information (PHI) involved clinical, demographic, and other information. The CE notified HHS, the media, and the affected individuals. OCR provided technical assistance to the CE regarding the HIPAA Rules.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
14,333 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$2.29M
14,333 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$2.75M
14,333 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Applied Healthcare Nursing Division, Inc. d/b/a Doctor's Choice Home Care 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
Texas statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Texas: Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 521.053
- Notice to individuals
- Without unreasonable delay, no later than the 60th day after determining a breach occurred
- Attorney general threshold
- 250 or more Texas residents (No later than the 30th day after determining a breach occurred)
- Private right of action
- Limited: Indirect recovery via the Deceptive Trade Practices Act (up to treble economic damages for knowing violations)
- Penalty
- $2,000-$50,000 per violation; additional up to $100 per individual per day, capped at $250,000 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
Texas filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Texas filings in 2026, topped up from other years where 2026 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon & Waldrep OB-Gyn AssociatesOpen | Healthcare Provider | 17,435 | 10 Sep 2026 | |||
| Jeffrey David Reuben, M.D.Open | Healthcare Provider | 17,017 | 27 Jul 2026 | |||
| Viking Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a City Ambulance ServiceOpen | Healthcare Provider | 14,324 | 31 Aug 2026 | |||
| Pecan Tree Dental, PLLC | Healthcare Provider | 13,300 | 26 Jan 2026 |
Index / Companion schedules
13 HHS breach register
→Hub: every filing, by state, year and entity.
04 Biggest breaches
→Mega-breaches with primary-source cost figures.
Industry / Healthcare
→IBM 2026: $6.64M average, 13 years at #1.
Regulation / HIPAA penalties
→OCR enforcement tiers and the 60-day rule.
11 50-state laws
→Deadline, AG threshold and penalties per state.
Cost / Per record
→Where the per-record model is reliable.
Provenance
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, Breach Portal (breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-11-12. 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 12 November 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__2026-11-12.csv, export row 11.
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