Sharing peer review information between healthcare organizations is essential to help medical staffs determine practitioners' competence and make...Read More »
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Before sending peer review information, a medical staff should first look at state laws to ensure it has a mechanism in place to make disclosures in a confidential manner. For example, Texas allows committee-to-committee disclosures, so for medical staffs in that state, it’s a best practice to...
Medical staff policies that require practitioners to sign releases before they disclose information to a requesting hospital are designed to...Read More »
Also, medical boards take action against physicians in Massachusetts and California, medical group receives $2.6 million in overpayments, and...Read More »