Business Associate Agreement: HIPAA
Download this sample form to use with your medical practice's business associates to ensure private patient data protection and meet HIPAA regulations.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires physicians to have their business associates -- claims processors or third-party billers, for example -- agree to protect private patient data. Here's a sample form to use for this purpose.
Forms provided by Reece Hirsch, attorney with Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP.
HIPAA highlights: 2 disturbing class actions, OCR risk analysis enforcement
April 24th 2025Two class-action lawsuits targeting the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Kansas Health System for years-long cyberstalking and unauthorized access to protected health information spotlight massive HIPAA risk-analysis failures and underscore the urgent need for stronger health care cybersecurity safeguards.
