The Dental Practice Owner’s HIPAA Cheat Sheet.
Everything you must do, and what it costs if you don’t, on one page. You went to dental school, not law school. Here’s the whole compliance picture in plain English, without the 200-page binder, so you know the right questions to ask before an auditor or a breach decides it for you.
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One page. The whole compliance picture.
The mandate: what law actually applies
HIPAA (federal) and CMIA (California’s stricter layer). Why a single California breach is a two-front problem: a federal regulator and a courtroom full of patients’ attorneys.
The must-do list
The Security Risk Analysis (the #1 thing OCR fines practices for not having), the three safeguard layers, a signed BAA with every vendor that touches PHI, workforce training, and breach notification. In order.
The 2026 penalty reality
Current HIPAA civil-penalty tiers and what an OCR investigation looks like, plus how California’s CMIA stacks patient lawsuits on top. Real numbers, with the as-of date.
The “my IT guy handles this” myth
The one question to ask him: “When was our last documented Security Risk Analysis, and can I see it?” Keeping computers running and owning HIPAA technical safeguards are two different jobs, and only one of them is what OCR asks about first.
General information only, not legal or compliance advice. The free review is a technical assessment of your IT environment, not a legal audit or a determination of compliance status.
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