If your small clinic doesn’t have a Security Risk Assessment or written policies, you’re not alone — and you’re not in as much trouble as you think, as long as you act now. The Security Risk Assessment is the foundation of HIPAA compliance, and everything else flows from it: your Gap Report, your Remediation Plans, and your policies and procedures.
At One Guy Consulting, we walk you through the entire process step by step. The S.R.A. is built into our compliance program and takes about 30 minutes to complete. Once it’s done, your Gap Report and Remediation Plans generate automatically. From there, your fully customized policy and procedure documentation can be generated in as little as 3–5 minutes.
The worst thing you can do is nothing. The federal government requires every covered entity and business associate to have a current risk assessment and written policies — and “we didn’t know” has never been an accepted defense. The good news? Getting compliant is faster and more affordable than most people expect.
HIPAA compliance consulting costs do not need to be astronomical, especially when doing business with One Guy Consulting. We do not charge by seat or license, only physical location. That said, the price we settled on when you subscribed to our services on day one will remain your rate year in and year out. Our standard rate for a one-location engagement for a year’s worth of time on our Full-Scope Compliance Tier is $1,300. There are never any fees, add-ons, surprises, or gotchas with us. The price we quote you is the price we quote you — it’s really that simple.
For your 5-person healthcare office, paying $1,300 annually, you will enjoy the following features on our Full-Scope Compliance plan:
If you think $1,300 a year is costly, it’s a steal compared to the amount the government would fine you. You may ask yourself, “Why would I do this? Do people really get in trouble for this?” The answer to that question is a definite yes — people get in trouble all the time for non-compliance. With the total civil penalty imposed across all organizations fined in 2025 coming to a whopping total of $6.6 million just last year, can you really afford to risk an audit? Not to mention, an audit does not only damage your wallet or insurance premium — it damages your hard-fought-for professional reputation. Your life’s work can go out the window because of something as simple as HIPAA compliance. Doesn’t that list of cons make $1,300 sound much more reasonable to have an expert in the subject walk you through every step of the way?
One Guy Consulting offers full-scope HIPAA compliance for small healthcare practices and business associates — everything the federal government requires, without the complexity or inflated pricing of enterprise solutions. We don’t charge by seat or license. We charge by physical location, and your rate never changes.
Our consulting program covers the entire compliance lifecycle: Security Risk Assessment, automated Gap Analysis and Remediation Plans, fully customized policy and procedure documentation, staff training with progress tracking, IT and physical site audits, vendor management with digital BAA execution, incident management with anonymous reporting, and help with annual CMS incident reporting.
On our Full-Scope Compliance plan, you also get 4 hours of 1:1 time with Chuck monthly, personalized implementation, incident response guidance, and CMS audit response support. Whether you’re a solo practitioner, a 5-person clinic, or a business associate handling PHI for other organizations — the process is the same, and we walk you through every step of it.
Failing a HIPAA audit can result in civil monetary penalties ranging from $141 to $2,134,831 per violation, depending on the level of negligence. In 2025 alone, the total civil penalty imposed across all fined organizations came to $6.6 million. But the financial hit is only part of it — a failed audit can trigger a corrective action plan that puts your practice under federal oversight for years, increase your malpractice insurance premiums, and cause lasting damage to the professional reputation you’ve spent your career building.
The good news is that audits don’t have to be scary. One Guy Consulting has helped practices pass state audits with as little as 6 days’ notice. The key is having your documentation in order: a current Security Risk Assessment, written policies and procedures, evidence of staff training, and a functioning incident management process. One Guy Consulting builds and maintains all of it for you, so when an auditor shows up — you’re ready.
Yes — if your organization creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information on behalf of a covered entity, you are a business associate under HIPAA, and you are legally required to comply. This includes IT companies, billing services, cloud storage providers, shredding companies, EHR vendors, consultants, and many others.
Business associates must conduct their own Security Risk Assessment, maintain written policies and procedures, train their workforce, and execute a Business Associate Agreement with every covered entity they work with. One Guy Consulting supports business associates with the same full-scope compliance program we offer covered entities — including digital BAA execution, vendor management, and customized policy documentation tailored to your role as a BA.
With One Guy Consulting, most small practices can reach full compliance in 4 to 6 weeks. The Security Risk Assessment takes about 30 minutes. Your Gap Report and Remediation Plans generate automatically from the S.R.A. results. Policy and procedure documentation can be generated in as little as 3–5 minutes after that. Staff training, vendor management, and site audits run in parallel.
The biggest variable is your team’s availability. On our Full-Scope plan, you get 4 hours of 1:1 time with Chuck each month to keep things moving. We’ve even helped a practice go from significantly behind to audit-ready in just 6 days when the situation called for it. The process is designed to be fast, focused, and realistic for small teams.
Absolutely. If you’re a healthcare provider who transmits any health information electronically — including billing, e-prescribing, or using an EHR — you are a covered entity under HIPAA, regardless of practice size. There is no small practice exemption. Solo practitioners are held to the same federal standards as hospital systems.
The difference is that solo practitioners often don’t have a compliance department, an IT team, or a legal budget to figure it all out. That’s exactly why One Guy Consulting exists. One Guy Consulting was built for small practices and solo providers who need full compliance without the overhead. One flat rate, one location, one process — and someone in your corner the entire time.
A Security Risk Assessment is a federally mandated evaluation of how your organization stores, handles, and protects electronic protected health information. It identifies vulnerabilities in your administrative, physical, and technical safeguards — and it’s the first thing an auditor will ask for.
Not having a current S.R.A. is the single most common HIPAA violation cited by the Office for Civil Rights. It’s also the foundation of your entire compliance program — your Gap Report, Remediation Plans, and policies all flow directly from it. With One Guy Consulting, the S.R.A. takes about 30 minutes and kicks off everything else automatically.
Yes. You do not need to experience a data breach to be fined for HIPAA non-compliance. The Office for Civil Rights can impose penalties for failing to conduct a risk assessment, not having written policies, inadequate staff training, missing Business Associate Agreements, or any number of administrative shortcomings — none of which require an actual breach to trigger enforcement.
In fact, many of the largest HIPAA fines in recent years were the result of complaints or random audits, not breaches. Compliance is not about waiting for something to go wrong — it’s about proving you did everything right before anything happens.
HIPAA requires all workforce members to be trained on your organization’s privacy and security policies, with annual refreshers. Our training program includes six modules — HIPAA 101, Cybersecurity Awareness, Policy Attestation, Fraud Waste & Abuse, Bloodborne Pathogen Safety, and Sexual Harassment Prevention — with bulk Magic Link invitations, progress tracking, and automated reminders.
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