The health care quality improvement act of 1986 meets the era of health care reform: Continuing themes and common threads: A symposium introduction and overview

TY - JOUR

T1 - The health care quality improvement act of 1986 meets the era of health care reform

T2 - Continuing themes and common threads: A symposium introduction and overview

AU - Mekel, Michele

N1 - Funding Information: 9 42 U.S.C. §§ 11131-11137 (2006) (HCQIA’s “Part B—Reporting of Information”); see Health Resources & Services Admin., The National Practitioner Data Bank, http://www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov/ (last visited Nov. 4, 2011). 10See Robert S. Adler, Stalking the Rogue Physician: An Analysis of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, 28 AM. BUS. L.J. 683, 700-17 (1991) (discussing HCQIA’s legislative history). 11See 42 U.S.C. § 280g-15 (Supp. IV 2010) (establishing grants to states for demonstration programs evaluating medical malpractice tort litigation alternatives). 12 See id. § 1320a-7e (merging the NPDB with the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB)). The HIPDB is a federal data repository, which was established by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, that monitors health care fraud and abuse. See Health Resources & Services Admin., The Data Bank: About Us, http://www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov/topNavigation/aboutUs.jsp (last visited Nov. 4, 2011). Both the HIPDB and the NPDB are administered by the Health Services and Resources Administration. Id.; see also 42 U.S.C. § 1396r-2 (Supp. IV 2010) (state licensing authority information repositories for sanctions against health care providers). 13See, e.g., 42 U.S.C. § 1395jjj (Supp. IV 2010) (quality improvement and ACOs). 14 The Health Policy Institute is an annual event jointly sponsored by Southern Illinois Healthcare, Southern Illinois University School of Law, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, and the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. The program is supported, in part, by an unrestricted educational grant from Southern Illinois Healthcare, the Southern Illinois School of Law, and a grant from the law firm of Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard PC.

PY - 2012/1/1

Y1 - 2012/1/1

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U2 - 10.1080/01947648.2012.657594

DO - 10.1080/01947648.2012.657594

M3 - Article

C2 - 22439704

AN - SCOPUS:84859473820

SN - 0194-7648

VL - 33

SP - 1

EP - 6

JO - Journal of Legal Medicine

JF - Journal of Legal Medicine

IS - 1

ER -