HIPAA Policies and Procedures Policy Template

HIPAA Policies and Procedures Policy Template is a comprehensive tool for ensuring your compliance with all HIPAA standards and implementation specifications. Managed effectively, the template provides confidence in protecting sensitive data of your organization’s clients. With our policy & procedure changes adequately documented, you can rest assured that any necessary updates to keep up with trend in healthcare regulatory measures are covered. 

The HIPAA Policies & Procedures Policy Template is the ideal tool to help your organization achieve compliance with all HIPAA standards and requirements. This template helps you to quickly and easily craft reasonable, appropriate policies and procedures to protect patient data while in your care.

SAMPLE TEXT: ENTITY NAME has adopted this HIPAA Policies and Procedures 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.

We hereby acknowledge 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.