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