Few aspects of the healthcare regulatory apparatus evoke more confusion and dread for healthcare practitioners than the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB or Data Bank). Being reported to the Data Bank is often regarded...more
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
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
Do the Right Thing — Reporting Voluntary Actions Taken While “Under Investigation” to the NPDB - Many health care entities struggle with the dilemma of whether and when to make reports to the National Practitioner Data...more
On June 13, 2023, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a major new patient safety bill into law that is intended both to reform the disciplinary authority of the Texas Medical Board (TMB) and to better protect patients from...more
The California Third District Court of Appeal recently upheld the actions of a healthcare facility reporting a provider to the National Practitioner Data Bank who resigned while under investigation. In doing so, the court...more
Physicians often have a legal obligation to report conduct which they believe may constitute negligence, or demonstrate an individual’s inability to practice medicine competently, safely, or within the bounds of the relevant...more
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that the records of any hospital committee which performs a peer-review function are entirely exempt from discovery in Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia Consultants, Ltd., Pa., 2021...more
An article in the July issue of Hospital Peer Review, “NPDB Reporting Protected by Law in Some Cases, Gray Areas Problematic,” discussed hospitals’ obligations to report doctors to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)...more
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) recently confirmed that the deadlines for reporting adverse actions against licensees have not been extended, despite the COVID-19 emergency. In its May 2020 “NPDB Insights”...more
To assist hospitals in credentialing physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Practitioner Data Bank (“NDPB”)—the federal clearinghouse for adverse action reports against physicians—has announced it is waiving...more
Recent reports of abuse in nursing homes are not only disturbing; they also shed light on the difficulties that long-term care (LTC) facilities face in screening potential health care workers. We believe background screenings...more
Polsinelli is pleased to share the Med-Staff Quarterly Newsletter. This publication contains articles and insight into issues that affect the Med-Staff industry. ...more
INTRODUCTION - The Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP health care practice group includes attorneys that handle regulatory, compliance, transactional and litigation needs for clients across the entire health care delivery...more
In October 2018, the National Practitioner Databank (“NPDB”) released a third edition of the NPDB Guidebook, a manual that provides guidance on the requirements established by the laws governing the NPDB. ...more
Title IV of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA), created the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). The NPDB is a national clearinghouse and repository of information on medical malpractice payments and...more
On October 26, 2018, the National Practitioner Databank (NPDB) released a third edition of the NPDB Guidebook. Among other changes, it updated Chapter E: Reports, Reporting Adverse Clinical Privileges Actions....more
On Friday, October 26, 2018, the National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”) quietly rolled out an updated October 2018 NPDB Guidebook. The last Guidebook was issued in April 2015, and at that time, had not been updated since...more
Are doctors relocating all over the United States? Congress created the National Practitioners Data Bank in 1986, passing a piece of legislation whose mission entailed improving the quality of healthcare, reducing abuse...more
According to the NPDB website, it is an “electronic information repository created by Congress. It contains information on medical malpractice payments and certain adverse actions related to health care practitioners,...more
The Illinois Supreme Court recently held in Klaine v. Southern Illinois Hospital Services, 2016 IL. 118217 that a physician’s application for hospital privileges, which included information obtained from the National...more
In This Presentation: - Hospital Governing Board - Do physicians have to serve on boards? - How must board consult with the organized medical staff if physicians are not on the board? - Hospital Medical...more
In This Presentation: - What is Disruptive/Impaired Behavior? - Main Impediments to Addressing Unprofessional Behavior - Components of Successful Policies - A Legal Perspective - Joint Commission and...more
Physicians always have been justifiably concerned about reports to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) regarding malpractice payments and adverse peer review actions. Two areas of frequent uncertainty have been: ...more
A strange result in Langenberg v. Warren General Hospital, suggests you should pay close attention to the termination language in hospital-physician employment contracts. Warren General Hospital terminated Dr. Langenberg...more