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Structural Denial of Due Process in HCQIA Peer Review Proceedings

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(October 12, 2015): The Federal HCQIA peer review statute 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. These due process rights are expressed as a right to a hearing, and are […]

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Peer Review: How HCQIA Due Process is a Fiction

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(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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