HIPAA Authorization Form Generator

Build a HIPAA Authorization for Use or Disclosure of Protected Health Information form that includes every core element required by the Privacy Rule at 45 CFR 164.508.

Open the generator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.

Example

Patient name
Jane Doe
Plan / covered entity
Acme Health Plan
Information to be released
medical records 2024-2025
Recipient
New Provider Internal Medicine
Purpose of disclosure
continuity of care
Expiration
2027-05-15

Result: Click "Build printable authorization" for a 45 CFR 164.508 letter listing patient, plan, info, recipient, purpose, and expiration.

The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.

What you enter

Patient name; the plan or covered entity; what is being released; the recipient; the purpose; and an expiration.

What this is

Build a HIPAA Authorization for Use or Disclosure of Protected Health Information form that includes every core element required by the Privacy Rule at 45 CFR 164.508: the specific information to be used or disclosed, the recipient, the purpose, the patient's signature and date, the expiration date or event, the right to revoke in writing, the statement that PHI may be re-disclosed once released, and the conditioning-of-treatment disclaimer. Sophie Well fills the form in from short prompts and outputs a printable document ready to sign.

When to use it

Use this when a patient needs to authorize a one-time disclosure of records that falls outside the routine TPO (treatment, payment, operations) framework - releasing records to an attorney, an employer, a life-insurance underwriter, or a third-party caregiver, or for a research study that requires explicit consent. The 164.508 authorization is distinct from a HIPAA Right of Access request: this is the patient authorizing disclosure to a third party; the Right of Access request (also generated by Sophie Well) is the patient requesting their own records be sent somewhere. Both are valid; they serve different legal purposes.

How this is calculated

HIPAA Privacy Rule, 45 CFR 164.508. Required-element template; covered entities may add their own elements.

A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.

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Built by Clay Good. Source on GitHub.