HIPAA Authorization and Supervision Policy Template

As a covered entity, you must ensure all personnel comply with the HIPAA Authorization and Supervision Policy. This policy governs health data-related access and activities that require authorization, as well as monitoring and supervision of authorized personnel. Our HIPAA Authorization and Supervision Policy Template provides an easy-to-follow framework to help you create a comprehensive policy - quickly and effectively!

This up-to-date template follows relevant regulations from the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). The document provides critical guidance on policies that establish disclosure requirements around unauthorized and legally authorized use of health information, procedures for managing user accounts, data retention/destruction timelines and more. With our dedicated team of healthcare compliance experts on hand to answer any questions, this HIPAA policy template is exactly what your organization needs to be compliant.

SAMPLE TEXT: ENTITY NAME has adopted this Authorization and Supervision 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.