What Might
You Be Missing?
A Free HIPAA Check-In
for Your Therapy Practice
You’ve got an EHR. Your clients sign their privacy paperwork. You take confidentiality seriously.
But what about everything happening behind the scenes?
Most therapists were never taught how to manage HIPAA compliance in private practice. We learned how to protect client confidentiality, but not necessarily how to conduct a Security Risk Analysis, evaluate vendors, document safeguards, or prepare for a potential breach.
And somehow, we’re supposed to know all of this while running a practice and seeing clients!
That’s why I created What Might You Be Missing?, a free HIPAA check-in to help you take a closer look at the compliance responsibilities that are easy to overlook.
What You'll Find Inside
This three-page check-in walks you through questions about:
- HIPAA policies and required documentation
- Security Risk Analysis and risk management
- Technology, vendors, and Business Associate Agreements
- Workforce access and security safeguards
- Breach response and practice preparedness
You won’t find a compliance score or a promise that checking every box means you’re HIPAA compliant.
What you will find are questions worth asking about your practice, including a few you may not have thought to ask before.
Who This Is For
This check-in is designed for.
• Solo private practice therapists
• Group practice owners
• Self-pay clinicians
• Insurance-based providers
• Therapists starting a new practice
If you run a HIPAA-covered practice, compliance is your responsibility. Your EHR doesn’t take care of it all for you!
What Might You Be Missing?
A HIPAA Check-In for Your Therapy Practice
You’ve got enough on your plate without wondering what compliance requirements might have slipped through the cracks.
Grab your free HIPAA check-in and take a closer look at what’s happening behind the scenes in your practice.
Created by Samantha Schalk, LMSW-C, LMSW-M, CAADC, CIMHP, BCP3, CHPSE,
Compliance Strategist and Founder of Guardian Clinical Essentials™.
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Guardian Clinical Essentials offers practical HIPAA compliance systems and resources to help you put the right pieces in place. I’ve already done the hard work of developing the tools, so you don’t have to start from scratch.
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