Adding legal notices to your Professional Website

You’ll want to make sure your Professional Website follows HIPAA regulations and notifies clients of your privacy practices, as well as their rights under the No Surprises Act. This guide covers how to add and publish required legal notices on your Professional Website, including a Notice of Privacy Practices and information about the No Surprises Act and Good Faith Estimates.

In this guide, we'll cover:

• Notice of Privacy Practices
• Notice of the No Surprises Act and the Good Faith Estimates

Note: To learn more about our integrated website builder, see Setting up your Professional Website.

Notice of Privacy Practices

If you're handling protected health information (PHI) as part of your practice, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires you to include a Notice of Privacy Practices on your website.

To add this to your Professional Website:

1. Navigate to Marketing > Website and domain > Edit website
2. Select Edit Website > Practice Details
3. Under Legal, choose Upload PDF to upload a PDF version of your existing Notice of Privacy Practices

4. Click Save Changes
5. Select Publish in the upper right corner

If you don’t currently have this notice, you can create one using our template. To do this:

1. Click Use our template

2. Review the legal disclaimer and click Continue
3. You’ll be prompted to Make a copy of the template
4. Update your practice name, address, contact information, effective date of the notice, and other information as needed
5. Click File > Download > PDF Document (.pdf) to download your newly created notice as a PDF file
6. Follow the steps above to upload and publish the notice to your Professional Website

Important: Make sure to review the template and update it to reflect your practice policies and state requirements. You are responsible for ensuring that your notice describes the ways in which you may use and disclose PHI and adequately informs clients of their legal rights regarding PHI. SimplePractice doesn’t provide legal advice, and the templates we provide are for reference only.

Once your notice is uploaded, visitors to your website will be able to access your Notice of Privacy Practices in the footer.

Notice of the No Surprises Act and the Good Faith Estimates

In accordance with the No Surprises Act, you’re required to include information about the availability of Good Faith Estimates on your website.

To add this to your Professional Website:

1. Navigate to Marketing > Website and domain > Edit website
2. Select Edit Website > Practice Details
3. Under Legal, click the toggle to Display No Surprises Act in footer

4. Click Save Changes
5. Select Publish in the upper right corner

Once the toggle is enabled, visitors to your website will be able to view information about the No Surprises Act and their right to a Good Faith Estimate in the footer.