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A Higher Power: Physician obligations to report another physician’s conduct under Wyoming law

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Wyoming physicians are sometimes confronted with the awkward and difficult choice of whether to bring a colleague’s potentially unprofessional, unethical, or harmful conduct to light by making a report to a hospital’s peer...more

Epstein Becker & Green

SCOTUS Lets National Practitioner Data Bank Safeguards Stand

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Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a case challenging the sufficiency of due process protections in the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) and National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), effectively...more

Polsinelli

The Limits of HCQIA Immunity: Disclosure of Information Outside of Professional Review Bodies and Falsity of Information

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The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington’s decision interpreting the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, 42 U.S.C. § 11101, et seq., (“HCQIA”), highlights specific requirements for immunity...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

PA appellate court holds that physician credentialing file is not protected by the state peer review privilege

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In a highly unfavorable peer review decision, Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia v. Petraglia, entered on February 12, 2020, a Pennsylvania state appellate court upheld an order compelling a hospital to produce the unredacted...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Rare Physician Win in Peer Review Lawsuit

Since enactment of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act in 1986, physicians haven’t usually fared well when they go to court to stop or delay hospital peer review actions, provided the hospitals follow the procedural steps...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Healthcare Litigation - February 2017

HCQIA Preemption of State Physician Whistleblower Statutes - Medical professionals who are subject to adverse actions following peer review often seek to sue the peer review participants (including the individual...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Medical Staff Bylaws Are Not Contracts in Delaware

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One of the fundamental issues in credentialing disputes is whether the Medical Staff Bylaws constitute contracts between the Hospital and the individual physicians. If the Medical Staff Bylaws do constitute a contract, then...more

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