Our HIPAA Compliance Guide and Checklist

Protecting patients’ sensitive data isn’t just the law: It also helps increase a patient’s trust in your healthcare organization. Compliance can be a difficult beast to tame but with our HIPAA Compliance Guide and Checklist, you’ll be on the road to achieving compliance. Keep reading for a sneak peek and to download the guide and checklist.

What Is HIPAA?

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) has a few main functions like ensuring individuals have health insurance between jobs, protecting patients’ sensitive data and more. It affects healthcare organizations and any other business that uses patient data, such as billing processors. 

It’s important that your healthcare organization complies with the following rules:

• HIPAA Privacy Rule
• HIPAA Security Rule 
• HIPAA Enforcement Rule
• HIPAA Omnibus Rule

These rules do everything from setting the standard for the privacy of health information to laws extending HIPAA compliance to healthcare organizations’ business associates. We outline these laws in more detail in our HIPAA Compliance Guide and Checklist download. 

What if We Don’t Comply With HIPAA Regulations?

There are many consequences if your organization does not comply with HIPAA laws, from lawsuits to hefty fines from the HIPAA regulatory body. Noncompliance can also affect current and potential patients’ trust in your organization. With the continual rise of cyberattacks, the general public has become increasingly more concerned about protecting their sensitive information. 

These are the fines that can occur for HIPAA violations:

• Unknowing violations: $100 per violation, up to $25,000 annually for repeat violations
• Reasonable cause: $1,000 per violation, up to $100,000 annually for repeat violations
• Willful neglect (corrected): $10,000 per violation, up to $250,000 annually for repeat violations
• Willful neglect (uncorrected): $50,000 per violation, up to $1.5 million annually for repeat violations

Ready to Meet Compliance? Then download our HIPAA Compliance Guide and Checklist

You don’t have to feel lost when it comes to HIPAA compliance. With our guide, you’ll have all the information at your fingertips. We highly encourage you to print out copies of our checklist to keep your healthcare organization or associated business on track. 

Our HIPAA Compliance Guide and Checklist gives you information on: 

• Who HIPAA affects.
• The purpose and components of HIPAA.
• How HIPAA affects your business.
• Key HIPAA rules and regulations.
• What information is protected under HIPAA.
• Penalties for noncompliance.
• The steps your organization can take to self-evaluate your current state of compliance.