Healthcare Quality Improvement Act - Achieving Immunity in Your Peer Review Process
OVERVIEW
This quality management training will discussthe Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) in detail, including the
standards that must be met to achieve immunity under the act. The HCQIA itself
will be reviewed, including a detailed look at the Congressional purpose for
the act. The legislative history of the act will be reviewed to gain an
understanding of the intent of Congress in passing the act.
Next will be a review of the standards under
the act. We will conduct a detailed review of each of the standards and the
actions that are required to meet the intent of the standards. Specifically,
there are four standards under the act that must be met. We will review each of
these with an eye toward court interpretation of what actions an organization
must take to achieve the protections granted by the act.
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| Healthcare Quality Improvement Act |
WHY
SHOULD YOU ATTEND
You should attend this webinar to gain an
understanding of how the HCQIA protects your organization and those who
participate in the peer review process in your organization, as well as gain an
appreciation of the actions that are required to perfect the HCQIA immunity.
Failure to take the appropriate actions and to follow the correct protocol can
result in a disastrous situation.
You will learn how to facilitate the frank
exchange of information among professionals conducting peer review inquiries
without the fear of reprisals in civil lawsuits. The statute attempts to
balance the chilling effect of litigation on peer review with concerns for
protecting physicians improperly subjected to disciplinary action; accordingly,
Congress granted immunity from monetary damages to participants in properly
conducted peer review proceedings while preserving causes of action for
injunctive or declaratory relief for aggrieved physicians. Not only will you
gain an understanding of the immunity provisions, you will gain an appreciation
of the standards that professional review actions must satisfy to entitle the
participants to such protection.
AREAS
COVERED
- The Health Care Quality Improvement Act
- Legislative history of the Health
Care Quality Improvement Act and the intent of Congress Immunity under the
Health Care Quality Improvement Act
- Standards required achieving
immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act Review of the
Health Care Quality Improvement Act by the courts
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| HCQIA |
WHO
WILL BENEFIT
Hospital executives, medical staff officers,
physicians who serve on peer review committees, medical staff support staff,
and attorneys representing medical staffs.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
We will discuss what is required to provide a
“fair” hearing, including the actions that must be taken before and during the
hearing process. You will gain an understanding of how to conduct an
investigation of the allegations that form the basis of the action and the
standards that the courts review to ensure that the investigation was adequate.
You will learn how the courts interpret the mandate in the HCQIA that the action
was taken “in the reasonable belief that the action was in the furtherance of
quality health care.” You will also gain an understanding of what is required
to meet the standard, “after adequate notice and hearing procedures are
afforded to the physician involved or after such other procedures as are fair
to the physician under the circumstances.”
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