General HIPAA Compliance Policy Template

With HIPAA compliance becoming increasingly important for all covered entities, the General HIPAA Compliance Policy Template is an essential tool to protect your business. This easy-to-use template provides a full set of policies and procedures to help demonstrate you are in compliance with all relevant laws and regulations. It ensures that everyone involved in your business is on the same page when it comes to how they should handle patient information.

This template will help you stay compliant while ensuring the privacy, confidentiality, and security of healthcare information as outlined by HIPAA. It incorporates short yet comprehensive statements on requirements and responsibilities pertaining to PHI, safeguarding, reporting breaches, access limitations, and other essential things. The template is regularly updated so you always have the latest information at hand and can ensure your business remains fully compliant with state and federal regulations.

SAMPLE TEXT: ENTITY NAME has adopted this General HIPAA Compliance Policy in order to recognize the requirement to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act of 2009 (Title XIII of division A and Title IV of division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act “ARRA”) and the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule (Effective Date: March 26, 2013). We acknowledge that full compliance with the HIPAA Final Rule is required by or before September 23, 2013.

ENTITY NAME hereby acknowledges our duty and responsibility to protect the privacy and security of Individually Identifiable Health Information (“IIHI”) generally, and Protected Health Information (“PHI”) as defined in the HIPAA Regulations, under the regulations implementing HIPAA, other federal and state laws protecting the confidentiality of personal information, and under principles of general and professional ethics. We also acknowledge our duty and responsibility to support and facilitate the timely and unimpeded flow of health information for lawful and appropriate purposes.

Each of our HIPAA templates are in Microsoft Word (.docx) format for easy editing. Each template is guaranteed to be fully HIPAA & HITECH compliant when properly implemented.