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HIPAA compliance audit

HIPAA Compliance Audit Tool

AI-powered HIPAA compliance audit that reads your Business Associate Agreements, privacy notices, and patient-data policies and cites the exact section — § 164.312(e), § 164.502, § 164.404 — for every violation. 137 HIPAA articles, 2026 inflation-adjusted Civil Monetary Penalty tiers.

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What HIPAA covers

Full name: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (45 CFR Parts 160, 162, 164)

Jurisdiction: United States — HHS Office for Civil Rights enforcement

Penalties: 2026 CMP tiers per 45 CFR § 102.3: Tier 1 (no knowledge) $137 — $68,928 per violation; Tier 4 (willful neglect, uncorrected) $68,928 — $2,134,831 per violation; annual cap $2,134,831 per identical provision.

Key HIPAA articles AuditGuard audits against

AuditGuard's database contains 137 HIPAA articles. Below are the most-cited sections in real-world enforcement actions. Every AuditGuard finding references a specific article ID.

§ 164.312(e)(1) — Transmission Security

Encrypt ePHI in transit; missing TLS or weak ciphers in a BAA is a frequent finding.

§ 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) — Risk Analysis

A documented risk analysis is mandatory; absence is the most-cited HIPAA Security Rule finding.

§ 164.404 — Breach Notification

Notification within 60 days of discovery; vendor BAAs frequently lack a compliant timeline.

§ 164.502(a) — Permitted Uses & Disclosures

Privacy Rule limits on ePHI use — clauses that allow "any business purpose" use fail.

§ 164.314(a) — Business Associate Contracts

BAA must include specific clauses; AuditGuard verifies all required terms are present.

§ 164.509 — Reproductive Health Attestation

2024 final rule — attestation required before disclosing reproductive-health information.

Who needs a HIPAA audit

  • Hospitals, clinics, dental practices, and any covered entity handling Protected Health Information (PHI)
  • Business Associates: cloud vendors, billing services, MedTech SaaS, EHR systems
  • Subcontractors of Business Associates (per the HIPAA Omnibus Rule)
  • Health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and self-insured employer plans
  • AI/ML companies processing PHI for diagnostic or research workflows

How AuditGuard audits HIPAA compliance

  1. Upload your contract, policy, DPA, or BAA (PDF, DOCX, or TXT).
  2. Clause Extractor parses the document and isolates regulation-relevant clauses.
  3. Compliance Validator matches each clause against HIPAA's 137 articles and identifies violations.
  4. Remediation Generator drafts replacement clause text for each finding.
  5. Critic Verifier cross-checks every citation against the regulation database before delivery.
  6. Download a PDF audit report with executive summary, per-clause findings, and corrected text.

Time to first audit: minutes. Compared with a manual legal review at $500/hour, AuditGuard runs from $5.98/audit on the Growth plan.

Frequently asked questions

Can AuditGuard audit a Business Associate Agreement (BAA)?
Yes — BAAs are AuditGuard's most common HIPAA use case. The tool checks for all required clauses under § 164.314(a) (permitted/required uses, safeguards, subcontractor flow-down, breach reporting timelines, and termination provisions) and cites the exact missing or non-compliant section.
Are the HIPAA penalty amounts current?
Yes — AuditGuard uses the 2026 inflation-adjusted CMP tiers per 45 CFR § 102.3 as published in the Federal Register. Tier 3 minimum is $14,602 per violation; Tier 4 maximum is $2,134,831 per identical-provision annual cap.
Does AuditGuard cover the 2024 Reproductive Health Final Rule?
Yes — § 164.509 (attestation requirement) is included in the database, and AuditGuard flags BAAs and privacy notices that do not address it.
Is PHI in my uploaded documents protected?
AuditGuard redacts PII and PHI patterns (SSN, MRN, DOB, phone, email, IP) on a hard-fail basis before any AI model sees the content. If redaction fails, the audit is marked failed and results are never saved. Data is encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and in transit with TLS 1.2+.

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