Hybrid Covered Entity

Hybrid Entities

"Hybrid entities" are defined as a single legal entity that conducts both covered and non-covered functions and designates certain health care components as covered functions – resulting in those functions of the entity being subject to HIPAA.

The University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus is a Hybrid Entity.

Examples

Physiology and Biophysics Department

The Physiology and Biophysics Department is a NON-HIPAA unit (as are most of the basic science departments as well as the Schools and Colleges on the downtown campus).

Department of Medicine

The Department of Medicine, with all its divisions, is a clinical science unit, and is under HIPAA as a "covered entity" due to seeing patients and providing health care.