A hipaa compliance auditor is a list of things to check and a number of days to check them in, and the second is decided by the first long before anyone opens the list. For a covered entity or business associate holding protected health information, the checks run over the safeguards, the risk analysis, the business associate agreements and the breach log; every item is a sample to take, minutes to spend and a chance of a gap that costs hours to close. The compliance officer who works those figures before the audit is scoped budgets the audit and its aftermath together; the one who does not learns the aftermath's cost from the invoice. This page walks what a hipaa compliance auditor covers, how to size its days, its expected gaps and its all-in cost, and where the free sheets on this site do that sizing from the program's own numbers, with no account.
Why the search is hipaa compliance auditor
The words in hipaa compliance auditor are the words a covered entity or business associate holding protected health information uses when the obligation has a name and the program does not yet have a number. The name is the regulator's, linked below; the number is the program's own, and it is the count of obligations, controls and evidence items behind HIPAA turned into reviewer hours on the obligations register sheet and into audit days on the audit scope sheet. A program that searches hipaa compliance auditor and comes away with those two figures has done the first day of the work, and the paid plan on this site keeps what follows: the record, with owners, dates and the attestation that closes each period.
What an auditor may not also do for you
Whoever designed or operates a control cannot provide independent assurance about it, so the firm that wrote your policies and ran your risk analysis is not the firm to audit them. Small organizations meet this by keeping one supplier for the build and another for the review, or by keeping the review internal with somebody who did not do the work. The arrangement you chose belongs in the register beside the control, because that is the question a customer's own auditor asks and it is cheaper to have answered it in advance.
What a hipaa compliance auditor covers
For a covered entity or business associate holding protected health information: the safeguards, the risk analysis, the business associate agreements and the breach log. Each is a control with evidence behind it, and a checklist is the list of controls with a sample size and a minutes-per-sample figure attached whether or not anyone wrote them down. The audit scope sheet on this site takes systems, controls, samples and minutes and returns the samples, the hours, the days and the coverage the days available give, so the checklist has a size before it has a date.
Gaps, remediation and the all-in cost
An audit finds gaps at a rate the last audit already measured, and every gap costs remediation hours. The audit sheets on this site for HIPAA, GDPR and PCI, and the IT control-testing sheet for a framework, take the item count, the gap rate, the hours per gap and the hourly cost and return the gaps expected, the remediation hours and the cost with the aftermath in it. For HIPAA the sheet to start with is the HIPAA risk analysis sheet. None of them publishes a benchmark rate; each works the program's own.
What to do with the number
Take it to the budget conversation and to the consultant's proposal. A proposal whose audit days land far from the sheet's is sampling more or less than the program needs, and a budget that covers the assessment and not the remediation is half a budget. The guide this page supports covers scoping regulatory compliance consulting from the register. Attestvio Pro keeps every audit with its findings and their remediation against the obligations it tested; the sheets stay free.
Questions people ask about hipaa compliance auditor
How long does a hipaa compliance auditor take?
Items times minutes over 60 for the hours, over the hours in an audit day for the days: the audit scope sheet on this site works it from your own systems, controls, samples and minutes with no account, and publishes no benchmark.
What does a hipaa compliance auditor cost all in?
Assessment hours plus the expected gaps times the remediation hours per gap, times the hourly cost. The audit sheets on this site work it from your own gap rate; the worked examples run from $8,800 to $19,720 for the sizes entered.
Does Attestvio run the hipaa compliance auditor?
No. Attestvio sizes it and keeps the findings and their remediation against the obligations; the audit itself is your assessor's or your own team's. The sheets are free either way.