Welcome to the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) informational Web pages. The department will use these pages to communicate HIPAA-specific information to our providers in a concise and consistent manner.

The department has compiled much of the HIPAA specific information within the following links:

• Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
  
  The department has created FQAs in order to provide you information in a timely and consistent manner. We encourage you to review this information, prior to phoning the department, as many times, the answer(s) to your Question(s) can be found here.
  
  
• Other HIPAA Information
  
  This link will direct you to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Web site, where additional information on HIPAA can be found.
  
  

• Privacy Forms
  
  The above link will display all the privacy forms that the department utilizes.