[Solved] 1986 Health Care Quality
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.
