The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provide a decision tool that can be used to determine whether health care providers are covered under HIPAA.

An entity that is one or more of these types of entities is referred to as a "covered entity."

Purdue University is a "hybrid entity" under the HIPAA Privacy Regulations. Purdue's primary purpose is education. However, Purdue does have departments or components that provide covered functions. Purdue University therefore has surveyed and investigated those departments that provide healthcare services or health plans, as well as those departments that provide business assistance to the healthcare/health plan components. The HIPAA task force has identified those components affected by HIPAA. For purposes of the HIPAA regulations, the following departments, plans or programs shall be designated as "covered components" and shall comply fully with the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the procedures and practices outlined in this Implementation Guide, as well as, any policies adopted pursuant to this Implementation Guide:

Healthcare Provider Covered Components
1. Purdue Student Health Center
2. Purdue Pharmacy
3. Purdue's School of Nursing Nursing Centers
4. Purdue’s SLHS Audiology and Speech-Language Clinics
5. Lafayette Street Family Planning Clinic
6. IPFW Dental Hygiene Clinic
7. Lafayette Street Dental Clinic

Health Plan Components
1. Medical Benefits Plan(s)
2. Vision Plan
3. Pharmacy Plan(s)
4. Health Care Flexible Spending Account Plan
5. Employee Assistance Programs
6. Employee Wellness
7. WorkLife

Business Support Covered Components
1. Accounts Receivable
2. E-commerce & Credit Card Operations
3. Central Files
4. Internal Audit
5. Information Technology at Purdue (only the following areas)
    a. Infrastructure Operations - Production Services
    b. Unix Platform Administration
    c. Windows Platform Administration
    d. Infrastructure Systems - Database Administration
    e. Customer Relations - Desktop Computing Support
    f. Enterprise Applications
    g. Security & Privacy
    h. ITaP Customer Service Center
6. Public Records Office
7. Printing Services
8. School of Nursing Business Office
9. Insurance Services Enterprise
10. OnePurdue Initiative
11. Environmental Health
12. Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences Technical Services
13. IPFW School of Health Sciences Business Office
14. Student Services Workstation Technology
15. Business Services Computing
16. IPFW Information Technology Services
17. Calumet Computing Technology and Information Services
18. North Central Information Services
19. North Central Accounting
20. RCHE-Health Outcomes and Policy Research Center
21. SLHS Business and Main Offices
22. SLHS Electronics and Technical Support
23. HR Operations
24. Accounts Payable
25. Payroll & Tax
26. HFS Human Resources Office
27. Calumet Budgets and Payrolls
28. Calumet Academic Computing
29. Bursar
30. University Collections-Loans