HIPAA · REMEDIATION & GAP CLOSURE
You Have HIPAA Findings. We Close Them.
You’ve been through a HIPAA risk assessment, or a pentest that surfaced PHI exposure issues, and the report is on your desk. The gaps are identified. Now the real work begins: implementing fixes, updating controls, and building the evidence trail your auditor will ask for.
That’s what this service is. Not another assessment. Not more findings. Remediation, the structured work of getting from a risk report to a closed, documented, audit-ready compliance posture. Our team works directly from your existing findings. We prioritize by risk, implement or guide implementation of fixes, retest to confirm closure, and hand you an evidence package your auditor can use.
SCOPE OF WORK
What HIPAA Remediation Actually Involves
Most organizations walk away from a risk assessment with a list of gaps and no clear path to closing them. Remediation isn’t just patching software. It’s a multi-layer effort that covers:
FIX LAYER
Technical controls
Encrypting PHI at rest and in transit, tightening access controls, enabling audit logging, patching vulnerable systems, and hardening configurations that were flagged during your assessment. These are concrete changes to your environment, not recommendations you have to figure out alone.
FIX LAYER
Administrative controls
Updating or creating the policies and procedures that HIPAA’s Security and Privacy Rules require. If your incident response plan is out of date, your workforce training hasn’t been documented, or your risk management policy doesn’t reflect your current environment, those are compliance gaps, and they’re the kind auditors catch first.
FIX LAYER
Evidence and documentation
Every fix needs a paper trail. A closed technical finding without documented evidence of closure isn’t closed as far as your auditor is concerned. We produce remediation logs, updated policies, retest results, and a structured evidence package mapped to the relevant HIPAA safeguards.
FIX LAYER
Business Associate Agreements
If your assessment identified missing or non-compliant BAAs, we review them, flag the gaps, and provide corrected language or templates.
The goal isn’t to complete a checklist. It’s to put you in a position where you can walk into an audit and demonstrate that every identified gap has been addressed, tested, and documented.
How We Prioritize Your Findings by Risk
Not all HIPAA findings carry the same urgency. PHI stored without encryption on a public-facing server is a different problem than an outdated workforce training acknowledgment form. Treating everything as equally urgent wastes time and delays the fixes that matter most.
When you share your findings with us, we conduct a rapid risk triage:
- CRITICAL / HIGH Issues with direct PHI exposure risk, active technical vulnerabilities, or findings likely to trigger OCR scrutiny. These move first. Examples: unencrypted PHI databases, unrestricted admin access, missing audit logging on systems that process ePHI.
- MEDIUM Policy gaps, incomplete documentation, and configuration weaknesses that don’t present immediate exposure but would fail an audit. We schedule these into the remediation sprint following critical fixes.
- Low / Administrative: Workforce training gaps, minor policy language issues, documentation formatting. Addressed in parallel or in a final cleanup sprint.
You receive a prioritized remediation backlog at the start of the engagement, a clear, sequenced plan so you know exactly what’s being fixed, in what order, and why.
From Finding to Fixed: Our Remediation Workflow
This is how an open finding becomes a closed compliance gap.
Finding Review
We ingest your existing risk assessment, pentest report, or audit findings. No assessment? We can reference our HIPAA Risk Assessment service to get you one first. For clients who already have findings, we begin here, reading and categorizing every item.
Risk Prioritization
We map each finding to the relevant HIPAA safeguard (§164.312 Technical Safeguards, §164.308 Administrative Safeguards, etc.), score it by likelihood and impact, and produce a prioritized remediation backlog. You approve the sequence before work begins.
Fix Guidance + Implementation Support
Depending on your internal capacity, we either implement fixes directly (for technical controls where we have access) or provide detailed remediation guidance your team executes with our oversight. Either way, we’re accountable for the outcome, not just the recommendation.
Policy and Documentation Updates
We write or rewrite the policies, procedures, and administrative documentation required to close each gap. This includes incident response plans, access control policies, workforce training materials, and risk management documentation, all mapped to specific HIPAA requirements.
Validation and Retest
Once fixes are implemented, we validate closure. For technical findings, this means retesting the specific control, confirming encryption is in place, access is restricted, logging is active. For administrative findings, it means reviewing the updated documentation against the relevant regulatory requirement. Nothing is marked closed without evidence.
Evidence Package
You receive a structured remediation evidence report: each original finding, the fix applied, validation method, and supporting artifacts (screenshots, configuration exports, signed policy versions, training completion records). This package is formatted for auditor review, mapped to HIPAA safeguard categories.
Where the engagement includes a technical assessment of in-scope systems, that work runs in parallel and feeds directly into the risk register and SoA, not as a separate report that someone has to manually reconcile later.
What You Receive for Your Auditor
Your auditor won’t take your word for it. They want documentation. Here’s what the evidence package includes:
DELIVERABLE
Remediation log
A line-by-line record of every finding, the action taken, the date completed, and who completed it.
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Updated policies
Revised or newly created policy documents, version-controlled and signed.
DELIVERABLE
Retest results
Technical validation output confirming that flagged controls now meet the required standard.
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Configuration evidence
Screenshots, exported settings, or system logs demonstrating the technical state of remediated controls.
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Training records
Completion evidence for any workforce training components of the remediation.
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Gap closure summary
A one-page executive summary mapping each original finding to its closed status, for use in auditor conversations.
All of it is organized, labeled, and ready to hand over. You’re not assembling the evidence yourself the night before your audit.
Who This Service Is For
This service is built for organizations that have findings and need to close them, not organizations still deciding whether to invest in compliance.
The right fit is typically:
- A healthcare provider or health system that received an internal or external risk assessment and needs technical and policy gaps closed before an OCR review or HIPAA audit.
- A HealthTech or telehealth SaaS company that surfaced PHI handling vulnerabilities during a web app or API pentest and needs to remediate before a customer security review or contract renewal.
- A business associate (billing provider, EHR vendor, cloud hosting company) with findings from a customer-initiated assessment that need to be closed to maintain the relationship.
- A team that’s failed a previous audit and is under a corrective action plan with a hard deadline.
If you’ve already been through an assessment and you know what’s broken, this is where you go next.
HIPAA Remediation Services Packages
Scope and pricing depend on how many gaps you have, their severity, and how much implementation support your team needs. See our Pricing page for full details.
| Tier | Starting price | Best for | Key inclusions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed-Scope Remediation | From $1,500 | Best for a defined set of findings you need closed quickly. | We agree on the gap list, implement fixes, update documentation, and deliver validation evidence. Clear deliverables, fixed cost. |
| Ongoing Remediation Program RECOMMENDED | From $3,500/month | For organizations with multiple gaps across several control areas that need to be closed in structured sprints. | Includes a remediation backlog, sprint planning, technical implementation, policy updates, and a monthly progress report. |
| Enterprise Remediation Program | From $7,500/month | For larger environments with multiple workstreams, faster audit deadlines, or multi-site complexity. | Includes stakeholder reporting, audit coordination support, and a pre-audit readiness review. |
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does HIPAA remediation take?
It depends on the number and severity of findings. A fixed-scope engagement targeting three to five technical gaps typically runs two to four weeks. An ongoing program with twenty or more findings across technical, administrative, and vendor controls usually takes three to six months of structured sprints. We give you a timeline estimate after reviewing your findings, before any work starts.
Is a retest included?
Yes. Validation and retesting are part of every engagement, not an add-on. We don’t mark a finding closed without confirming the fix held. For technical findings, that means a targeted retest of the specific control. For policy and administrative gaps, it means a documented review of the updated artifact against the HIPAA requirement it addresses.
Will you work with our internal IT team?
Yes, and for most engagements, that’s the model. We provide the remediation plan and technical guidance; your team executes under our oversight. If you need us to implement directly, for example, if you don’t have internal security engineers, we can do that for agreed technical scope. We define the division of responsibility clearly at the start.
What does the evidence package actually look like?
It’s a structured document set, not a single report. You receive the remediation log, updated policies (version-controlled), retest output, configuration evidence, training records, and a gap closure summary. Everything is labeled and organized by HIPAA safeguard category so it’s easy to navigate during an audit or OCR inquiry.
How much does HIPAA remediation cost?
Fixed-scope engagements start at $1,500 for a defined, limited set of gaps. Ongoing programs start at $3,500/month. Enterprise programs from $7,500/month. The right number depends on gap volume, technical complexity, and urgency. We’ll give you a specific proposal, not a range, within 48 hours of reviewing your findings. See our Pricing page for more detail.
Share Your Open Findings
Share your open findings. We’ll review them and propose a remediation plan within 48 hours. You don’t need to have everything organized. A risk assessment report, a pentest finding list, or even an audit letter is enough for us to scope the work. We’ll tell you what needs to happen, in what order, and what it will cost to close every gap.