The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (the "Court") denied a hospital's assertion that a state law peer review privilege protected its documents related to the death of a patient in response to a request from Disability Rights of North Carolina (DRNC), North...
The medical staff exists to ensure the quality of care, which is dependent primarily on individuals granted privileges in the organization. The way the organized medical staff accomplishes this is through competency determination across the lifetime of a practitioner at the...
CMS’ 2014 final rule clarified its position that categories of non-physician practitioners could be included on the medical staff; it also enabled medical staffs to privilege registered dietitians (RD) and other nutrition professionals to order therapeutic...
