HIPAA Security Risk Analysis — Small Practice
The Security Rule requires every covered entity and business associate to perform a security risk analysis. This engagement delivers exactly that for small and mid-sized practices: an asset and ePHI inventory, threat and vulnerability analysis, risk ratings, and a remediation plan you can show OCR, a payer or a cyber insurer. It is the entry point below the full HIPAA/HITECH Compliance Assessment.
In scope
- ePHI asset and data-flow inventory
- Administrative, physical and technical safeguard review
- Threat, vulnerability and risk rating per asset
- Remediation plan with owners and dates
- Policy and BAA gap check
You receive
- HIPAA security risk analysis report
- Risk register
- Remediation plan
- Attestation summary for insurers and partners
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential Practice SRA
$3.5K
Single-location practice with up to 25 staff: ePHI inventory, safeguard review, risk register and remediation plan.
- employees
- 25
- Sites
- 1
- — Technical vulnerability scanning
- — Policy authoring
- — More than one location
Advanced Practice SRA
$6.5K
Up to 100 staff AND up to 3 locations (exceeding either moves to the next tier): adds policy gap review, BAA review and a staff training session.
- employees
- 100
- Sites
- 3
- — Technical vulnerability scanning
- — EHR vendor review
Enterprise Practice SRA
$12.5K
Multi-location groups and business associates up to 500 staff and 10 locations: adds a technical vulnerability scan, EHR and vendor review and a 90-day remediation check. Larger organizations need the HIPAA/HITECH Compliance Assessment.
- employees
- 500
- Sites
- 10
- — Organizations above 500 staff — use the HIPAA/HITECH Compliance Assessment
- — Penetration testing
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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