HIPAA Access Termination Policy Template

The HIPAA Access Termination Policy Template ensures that all personnel of a covered entity adhere to the termination of individual access to protected health information and Individually Identifiable Health Information (IIHI). This policy is essential to ensure that your business is compliant with HIPAA regulations.

With this template, you will be able to clearly define the terms of access termination and apply them consistently across your organization. It outlines how access control processes can be used to protect sensitive data from unauthorized users when granting or denying staff members' access to it.

SAMPLE TEXT: ENTITY NAME has adopted this Access Termination 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.