Health Care Quality Improvement Act

The health care quality improvement act of 1986 is ostensibly meant to protect the public from incompetent physicians by allowing those physicians on peer review committees to communicate in an open and honest environment and thus weed out incompetent physicians without the specter of a retaliatory lawsuit by the reviewed physician.

Health care quality improvement act. The health care quality improvement act of 1986 is now in full force and peer review participants are anxious to cloak themselves with immunity from actions brought by health care professionals. Title iv health care quality improvement act of 1986 title iv encouraging good faith professional review activities. 11101 note short title.

This webinar will discuss the health care quality improvement act hcqia in detail including the standards that must be met to achieve immunity under the act. For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable javascript. The hcqia itself will be reviewed including a detailed look at the congressional purpose for the act.

Although its goals are worthy hcqia s effects remain to be seen. To restrict the incompetent physicians to move from one state to another. The health care quality improvement act of 1986.

The purposes of the act are. The healthcare quality improvement act of 1986 hcqia was introduced by congressman ron wyden from oregon title 42 of the united states code sections 11101 11152 it followed a federal antitrust suit by a surgeon against an astoria hospital and members of its clinic in which he claimed antitrust actions were effected through the mechanism of peer review in the hospital. The healthcare quality improvement act 1986 the federal hcqia was passed by congress in 1986 to extend immunity to good faith peer review of physicians and dentists and to create the national practitioner data bank npdb.

To improve the quality of medical care. This title may be cited as the health care quality improvement act of 1986. Here are the instructions how to enable javascript in your web browser.

Promotion of professional review activities provides protection from liability under federal and state laws for members of a professional review body and their staffs who in the reasonable belief that the action was in the furtherance of quality health care warranted by the facts known. To reduce the occurrence of medical malpractice. Health care quality improvement act of 1986 title i.