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HITRUST e1 for startups. From $2,000.

The entry-level HITRUST certification healthcare buyers accept from a smaller vendor. A HITRUST e1 certification is issued by HITRUST, after a validated assessment by an authorized external assessor, never by us. We build the program, the policies and the evidence behind it.

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Platform onboarding
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a HITRUST e1 certification
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Issued by HITRUST, after a validated assessment by an authorized external assessor

What you get for HITRUST e1.

The same platform every framework runs on, pointed at this one: your answers, your evidence, your documents.

The 44 e1 requirements mappedEach of the 44 requirement statements tied to the control in your environment that satisfies it, with the evidence an assessor will ask to see.
Policies and procedures per requirementHITRUST scores policy and procedure separately from implementation, so the platform drafts both for every requirement from your own answers.
Evidence binder ready for MyCSFScreenshots, configurations and tickets organized by requirement so the upload into MyCSF is a copy, not a scramble.

How HITRUST e1 runs here.

Four steps, in this order, with the handoff at the end.

  1. Step 1

    Answer the intake in an afternoon

    The questionnaire covers your systems, access, encryption, logging and vendors in founder language, then the platform translates it into e1 terms.

  2. Step 2

    See your gaps against all 44

    A deterministic gap analysis scores each requirement on policy, procedure and implementation and lists what is missing before you buy a MyCSF subscription.

  3. Step 3

    Draft policies and collect evidence

    Policies and procedures are drafted from your answers. You review them, run the fixes, and attach evidence per requirement into one binder.

  4. Step 4

    Validated assessment in MyCSF

    An authorized external assessor, arranged through partner firms, validates your self-assessment inside MyCSF, and HITRUST issues the one-year e1 certification.

What HITRUST e1 costs.

Published where it can be published, and arranged with the firm that signs it where it cannot.

$2,000 one time for platform onboarding.

That is the intake, the gap analysis, your policies, the evidence binder and the handoff package.

A HITRUST e1 certification is arranged with HITRUST, after a validated assessment by an authorized external assessor and quoted before it begins.

The e1 validated assessment runs inside HITRUST MyCSF with an authorized external assessor, and HITRUST alone issues the certification. Polara Labs prepares the evidence and is not an assessor.

Polara Labs is not a certification body. Certification audits are performed by independent accredited certification bodies.

HITRUST e1 questions.

What buyers ask, and what the work actually involves.

Platform onboarding starts at $2,000 and covers the gap analysis, policies, procedures and evidence binder. The MyCSF subscription is paid to HITRUST and the validated assessment is arranged through partner firms, each priced separately.
e1 is the entry level: 44 requirements, a one-year certification, and a validated assessment small teams can finish in weeks. Most healthcare buyers accept it from a vendor that does not hold protected health information at scale. i1 and r2 come later if a buyer demands them.
No. HITRUST issues the certification after an authorized external assessor validates your assessment inside MyCSF. We prepare you so the assessor finds what it expects on the first pass.
Most startups are assessment-ready in four to eight weeks, then the assessor's fieldwork and HITRUST's quality review add several more. The exact schedule is set on the scoped call before anything is billed.

Unblock the deal.

Tell us where you are with HITRUST e1 and we will tell you what is left.

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Polara Labs builds both sides of the audit: the readiness platform startups use to earn a SOC 2 report, an ISO 27001 certificate or whatever their buyers ask for, and the practice OS audit firms use to run the examination. Every price is published on the page it belongs to.

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Polara Labs is not a CPA firm. SOC 2 examinations are performed by independent licensed U.S. CPA firms in our network; the audit opinion is theirs alone and is not regulated by Polara Labs. We generate custom policies, evidence checklists, and remediation guidance. You remain responsible for implementing controls and owning audit outcomes. Replace placeholders with your actual controls and have final documents reviewed by qualified professionals before your audit.