The Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department (the "Court") recently ruled that parts of a hospital peer review committee's meeting minutes were not entitled to the state's quality assurance privilege. Due to an exception in that privilege,...
Short of terminating a physician’s employment, appraising a physician’s performance is often the responsibility that administrative and medical staff leaders hate most. For many physicians, the phrase “performance appraisals” stirs up an unsavory image of managers sitting behind large desks...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit involving Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, and aging physicians remains an ongoing legal matter. The EEOC charged in the February 2020 lawsuit that the hospital violated federal...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 11
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (the "Court") vacated a pair of lower court rulings, finding that documents in a physician's credentialing file and from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) were protected from disclosure in a lawsuit claiming corporate negligence against a hospital....
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 9
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (the "Court") ruled that a physician’s claims against the health system and hospital that employed him did not stand up because they stemmed from protected peer review activities.
The foundation for much of peer review is case review. And although medical staffs have been conducting case reviews for years, that doesn't necessarily mean it's done consistently or well.
There can be much variation in the effectiveness of case review among different medical staffs and...