Checklist · Health & Medical Law
Notice of privacy practices review
Review list for the required elements of a HIPAA notice of privacy practices under 45 CFR 164.520(b). It checks a draft. It is not the notice that is distributed.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- United States
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for United States.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a lawyer is checking a draft notice against the required elements in 45 CFR 164.520. Do not use it as the notice given to patients, and do not use it to decide who must provide a notice.
Used for these tasks
- Map health-privacy duties across the records systems
- Respond to a patient's request for access to their health records
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
Yellow: the lawyer confirms each element against the entity's actual practices before the notice is used.
AI may
- Set out the header sentence that 45 CFR 164.520(b)(1)(i) requires, as a check, not as a finished notice.
- List the required descriptions in 164.520(b)(1) and leave each example blank for the lawyer.
- Point to the reproductive-health prohibition in 164.502(a)(5)(iii) that the notice must describe.
AI must not
- Do not issue or distribute a notice of privacy practices.
- Do not invent an example of treatment, payment, or health care operations.
- Do not restate 45 CFR 164.508, 164.509, 164.522, 164.524, 164.526, 164.528, or 164.530. Those sections were not opened.
- Do not state a delivery deadline. Section 164.520(c) was not used for timing.
The lawyer checks
- Match each description to what this entity actually does.
- Write any example. This list does not supply one.
- Read 164.520(c) before stating when or how the notice is given.
- Read 164.520(a)(3) before relying on any exception other than the inmate exception in (a)(4).
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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- read the whole precedent, with its drafting notes beside it;
- copy it, or download it as a Word file or Markdown;
- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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