Hospitals must know what events are reportable to the NPDB. Sometimes the answer is clear cut; sometimes it is not. Recent changes to the NPDB Guidebook have also effected when hospitals must report actions taken against a physician. This figure provides some examples of what types of...
In October 2018, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released an update to the National Practitioner Data Bank’s (NPDB)...Read More »
The Fifth Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a district court decision ruling that federal and state immunity provisions do...Read More »
As telehealth expands and technology improves, there are an increasing number of options for communication between healthcare providers and...Read More »
Plus, hospital employees fired for accessing actor’s medical records, senators ask for old privacy regulation to be removed, and Match results...Read More »
The Supreme Court of Utah (the “Court”) affirmed a district court’s decision that there is no exception to the non-discoverability of privileged...Read More »
Collegial intervention is an administrative attempt to resolve issues informally, rather than go down the road of formal corrective action, which...Read More »
As news of Christopher Duntsch’s botched surgeries broke and the public began to realize the catastrophic proportions of this disaster, it became...Read More »
