Peer Review: How HCQIA Due Process is a Fiction

(August 31, 2014): The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986[1] (“HCQIA”, generally pronounced “Hick Kwah”), affords peer-reviewing bodies and their members legal immunity from liability from suits by the physicians they discipline, so long as their peer-review processes include certain due process rights for the accused physician. Unfortunately, the provider peer review process is irrevocably […]

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