Posted: March 12th, 2023

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lecture:

• Legal and Regulatory Issues

Introduction:

The 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act established a database that is intended to improve the quality of healthcare in this country. Two other databases have merged with it and now offer many potential advantages.

Tasks:

• Describe the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB).
• Identify the uses of the NPDB.
• Analyze any limitations of the NPDB.
• Describe how NPDB relates to billing for services.