Pennsylvania healthcare breach data

Notification deadline

Following determination of the breach, without unreasonable delay, subject to statutory exceptions including law-enforcement delay and any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system. Private-entity ordinary practice; distinct public-entity accelerated timelines apply elsewhere in the Act and are not the applicable framework for private HIPAA-regulated practices.

State regulator notice

Satisfied by HIPAA compliance

If notice must be provided to more than 500 affected Pennsylvania individuals under the Act, the entity must provide concurrent notice to the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. This is the ordinary private-entity AG-notice trigger. Public-entity accelerated timelines apply elsewhere in the Act and are outside the scope of this record.

Substitute compliance depends on actually meeting the federal obligation. A practice outside HIPAA, or one that has not met its federal notice duty, falls back on the requirement below as written. Stated trigger: More than 500 affected Pennsylvania individuals for the ordinary private-entity AG-notice obligation.