The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) quietly updated its guidelines last spring, and the changes have left many medical staff services departments wondering what—if anything—they must do differently. If your medical staff has questions, tune in to "FPPE and the Revised NPDB Guidebook: How...
The Supreme Court of Michigan (the Court), reversing the decision of a trial court, held that objective facts contained in an incident report are protected by the state's peer review statute.
Two years ago, the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) launched its online repository to provide medical staff offices a place to quickly find and upload primary source practitioner affiliation history. Since then, the NAMSS Practitioner Affiliation Sharing Source (NAMSS PASS)...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 9
In April 2015, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) published its first new guidebook in 13 years. It includes a significant expansion of the NPDB’s definition of an investigation with direct impact on reporting requirements for physicians or dentists who resign while under investigation...
In April 2015, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) published its first new guidebook in 13 years. It includes a significant expansion of the NPDB's definition of an investigation with direct impact on reporting requirements for physicians or dentists who resign while under investigation...