HIPAA/State Law Preemption Policy Template

Get compliant with HIPAA and state law quickly, easily, and confidently by utilizing our HIPAA/State Law Preemption Policy Template. Establishing a data privacy and security plan is critical for healthcare organizations to ensure the safety of their customer’s medical information. As part of compliance requirements, entities must analyze and assess state law requirements that could impact HIPAA preemption policies. Now you can minimize the time-consuming task of researching the nuances of state laws with our comprehensive yet easy-to-use product.

Our HIPAA/State Law Preemption Policy Template is designed for busy healthcare professionals who need to be 100% certain about safeguarding data without drowning in complex legal and regulatory language. Our hands-on approach brings critical clarity, allowing you to focus on providing excellent service to your customers instead of worrying about which forms or plans need to be completed. With our user friendly policy template, peace of mind endures knowing all your customer information is secure while staying fully compliant with local legislation as well as federal guidelines established by the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

SAMPLE TEXT: ENTITY NAME has adopted this HIPAA/State Law Preemption 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.