Achieving Immunity under Health Care Quality Improvement Act

Quality Improvement Act and how to implement those provisions?  The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) is a federal law that was enacted to create a national tracking system of physicians with a history of medical malpractice payments or adverse actions. This Act is meant to protect the public from spam physicians by allowing those physicians on peer review committees to communicate in an open and honest environment and thus removing incompetent physicians, without the specter of a retaliatory lawsuit by the reviewed physician. Attend this training program “The Healthcare QualityImprovement Act: How to achieve Immunity in Your Peer Review Process” by William Mack Copeland, to gain an understanding of how the HCQIA protects your organization and on those who participate in the peer review process in your organization. You will also gain an appreciation of the actions that are required to perfect HCQIA immunity. Failure to take the appropriate actions and to follow the correct protocol can result in confusion.

Key Learning Objectives

·         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 to achieve immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act

·         Review of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act by the courts

      Register for this webinar at: The Healthcare QualityImprovement Act: How to achieve Immunity in Your Peer Review Process