Advising Medical Professionals on Data Bank Issues
If your name appears in the National Practitioner Data Bank or another healthcare data bank, you could have trouble obtaining hospital privileges, state licenses, HMO affiliation and other important factors in your ability to do your job.
At the Law Offices of Jeffrey C. Grass, we are familiar with the federal laws and voluntary structures governing medical data banks. If you are concerned that allegations against you could end up in a data bank, don't hesitate to contact us for a free initial consultation with experienced medical practitioner defense lawyer Jeffrey Grass.
Protect Your Nationwide Medical Reputation
There are various national-level data banks that include potentially damaging information about doctors and other medical practitioners. Hospitals and state licensing boards use these data banks to evaluate practitioners who apply for licenses and privileges, and often use them to monitor practitioners on an ongoing basis. The data banks include the following:
- National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB): This data bank contains information about physicians, dentists and other medical providers who have been subjected to actions such as hospital peer review, state license suspension and medical malpractice that speak directly to the practitioner's ability to provide quality medical services.
- Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB): This data bank contains additional information about civil, criminal and administrative actions against all types of healthcare providers, suppliers and practitioners.
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing Data Bank (NDB): This voluntary reporting system aggregates information about disciplinary and censure actions taken against nurses.
Although the information in these data banks is not available to the general public, it is available to many parties within the healthcare community, and with the new Proactive Disclosure Service (PDS), organizations can receive ongoing updates about their affiliated practitioners from the national data banks.
Take Action Now to Address Serious Consequences
Information about you may appear in a data bank even though no allegations against you were ever proven. In some cases, it is possible to have damaging information removed from the data banks. In other cases, it is possible to take steps early in an investigation in order to avoid material being forwarded to a data bank.
Your career may depend on having an attorney who understands the national data bank system for medical practitioners. We regularly defend clients who are facing data bank consequences. Contact us to discuss your options.
