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HIPAA Gap Assessment

A blunt, evidence-based read on where you stand against every required and addressable specification in the Security, Privacy, and Breach Notification.

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A blunt, evidence-based read on where you stand against every required and addressable specification in the Security, Privacy, and Breach Notification Rules.

Who this is for

Organisations that already know roughly where they stand and need the work done — not another vendor explaining what HIPAA is. Covered entities and business associates both, from 10-person health tech startups to multi-site provider groups.

How the engagement runs

  • Kickoff and scope confirmation — entities, systems, ePHI flows
  • Documentation review of existing policies, BAAs, and prior assessments
  • Interviews with IT, clinical, HR, and vendor owners
  • Technical validation: encryption, access control, logging, backup, MFA
  • Findings workshop and prioritised remediation roadmap

What you get

  • Gap Assessment Report with per-specification status
  • Prioritised remediation plan with effort and owner
  • Executive summary suitable for the board
  • Evidence request list for anything we could not verify

Timeline and price

Typical duration2–3 weeks
Starting price$4,500
Delivered byNamed healthcare compliance lead, not a rotating bench
Deliverable formatPDF + DOCX + loaded into your SuperHIPAA workspace

Scope drivers that move the price: number of legal entities, number of clinical or production systems in scope, whether ePHI crosses a cloud boundary, and how much prior documentation exists.

Why teams pick us over a generalist consultancy

A generalist gives you a report. We give you a report and the system that keeps it true twelve months later. The deliverable is not a PDF you file — it is a populated risk register, a live evidence library, and a workforce that has acknowledged the current version of every policy.

What happens after you fill the form

  1. You get the deliverable immediately. No “a rep will contact you to unlock your download.”
  2. We read your answers before we call. The scoping call starts with what you told us, not a discovery script.
  3. You get a fixed-scope, fixed-price proposal in 2 business days — or a straight “you don’t need us yet,” which we say more often than you’d expect.

On the word “certified.” There is no government HIPAA certification. Any vendor selling you a “HIPAA Certificate” is selling a PDF they printed themselves. What regulators, customers, and insurers actually accept is a documented risk analysis, implemented safeguards, and evidence that both are maintained. That is what SuperHIPAA produces.

Questions

How is this priced?

Fixed scope, fixed fee, starting at $4,500. We publish the starting number because vendors who hide it are usually charging based on how desperate you sound.

How long does it take?

2–3 weeks for a typical engagement. Multi-entity or multi-cloud environments take longer and we say so in the proposal, not after you sign.

Do we have to buy the platform too?

No. Services stand alone. Most clients bundle because the deliverables land directly in the platform and stay maintainable, but it is not a condition.

Will this make us HIPAA certified?

No such thing exists. This produces the risk analysis, documented safeguards, and evidence that regulators and enterprise customers actually accept.

Is the assessment remote or onsite?

Remote by default. Onsite is available when physical safeguards under §164.310 genuinely need eyes on the facility, and that is priced explicitly in the proposal.

What do you need from us to run it?

Existing policies, BAAs, prior assessments, a list of systems that touch ePHI, and a few hours of interviews with your IT, HR, and operations leads. We send the full request list at kickoff.

Gap assessment or risk analysis — which comes first?

They answer different questions. The gap assessment measures you against every specification in the rules; the risk analysis under §164.308(a)(1) rates threats to your ePHI. If you genuinely do not know where you stand, start with the gap assessment.

What format is the deliverable?

PDF and DOCX, plus the findings loaded into a SuperHIPAA workspace so remediation is trackable with owners and dates — not a report that gets filed and forgotten.

See your compliance program in one place

A 20-minute walkthrough with a practitioner. No slides, no pressure.

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