It depends on how your clinic operates, and the answer is often messier than owners expect. A purely cash-pay facility that never bills insurance is usually not a HIPAA covered entity, but obligations can attach the moment you accept insurance, contract with a covered sports medicine practice, or receive physician referrals that include medical records. Even outside HIPAA, state consumer health privacy laws such as Washington’s My Health My Data Act treat biometric and performance data as protected information. Professional and collegiate team agreements frequently layer their own confidentiality and data handling requirements on top of that. Medical IT Company maps exactly how athlete data enters, moves through, and leaves your clinic, then builds security controls that satisfy the strictest standard you touch so you never have to guess.