As a CMMC Registered Provider Organization, Meditology prepares you for certification. The certification assessment itself is performed by an accredited C3PAO you select.
Your health system, academic medical center, or research organization just won, or wants to keep, a Department of Defense (DoD) contract or subcontract. Now a requirement lands on a team already stretched thin: Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).
CMMC governs how organizations in the defense supply chain protect Federal Contract Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). For healthcare, that often means research grants, defense-adjacent clinical programs, and data flows that sit alongside protected health information. The frameworks overlap, the audiences differ, and the stakes are contractual.
Healthcare compliance and security leaders tell us the same things: they’ve invested years in HIPAA and HITRUST and assume none of it counts toward CMMC (it does, when the overlap is mapped correctly), and they don’t know which systems actually hold CUI, which is the single most consequential thing to get right, since an oversized boundary inflates cost and an undersized one fails the assessment.
A failed or stalled assessment can put a contract at risk. The work ahead is real, and you do not have to start from zero.
Meditology is a CMMC Registered Provider Organization (RPO) authorized by the Cyber AB. We guide healthcare organizations through a three-phase journey, crediting the HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST work you have already done.
First, understand the levels
Implement the controls that close out the readiness gaps.
Complete the System Security Plan.
Resolve open Plan of Action and Milestones items.
Build the evidence artifacts an assessor will expect.
CMMC firms understand defense contracting. Healthcare firms understand PHI. Academic medical centers, DoD-contracting health systems, and research organizations need both at once, because the same environment often holds CUI and PHI, and the two regimes don’t align neatly.
Meditology is a CMMC Registered Provider Organization authorized by the Cyber AB, working only in healthcare. We scope CUI in environments that also handle PHI, and we credit the HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST 800-171 work you have already done rather than starting from zero.
For Level 2 and Level 3, we prepare you and stay engaged through the assessment performed by the accredited C3PAO you select. We do not perform the certification assessment ourselves.
If your organization handles Federal Contract Information (FCI) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) under a Department of Defense (DoD) contract or subcontract, CMMC applies. Many healthcare organizations encounter it through research grants and defense-adjacent clinical programs.
Level 1 (17 practices) protects FCI through annual self-assessment. Level 2 (the 110 controls of NIST SP 800-171) protects CUI. Level 3 adds NIST SP 800-172. Your contract language determines the level.
Yes. We perform a regulatory overlap analysis so existing HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST CSF 2.0 controls earn full credit toward your CMMC requirements rather than being rebuilt.
CUI scoping defines which data and systems fall inside the assessment boundary. It is the most consequential step in the journey. An oversized boundary inflates cost and risk; an undersized one fails the assessment.
No. Where a third-party assessment applies, an accredited Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) performs it. Meditology prepares you, helps you select and engage a C3PAO, and stays engaged through the assessment.
The System Security Plan (SSP) documents how you meet each control. The Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) tracks the gaps you are still closing and when. Both are central to a CMMC assessment.
Schedule a 30-minute conversation to scope your CUI boundary and see how much of your existing HIPAA and HITRUST work already counts toward CMMC, before you spend on either mistake: protecting data that was never in scope, or missing what was.
