Threat vs. exposure.

HIPAA breach heat layered over home health agency density. Toggle layers to see the correlation, where the industry grows, the breaches follow.

7,486

Breaches

12,306

Agencies

Layers

Breach heat

Agency points

Breach type

Hacking / IT incident

Unauthorized access

Theft

Agency ownership

For-profit8,984

Non-profit1,046

Government247

Key finding The states with the highest agency density (CA, TX, FL) also carry the highest breach counts. The correlation is roughly linear, but the per-agency breach rate diverges. Massachusetts: 0.86 breaches per agency. Ohio: 0.27.

Data: HHS OCR + CMS · Code