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Poliner Bad Faith Peer Review
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Sham Peer Review Poliner
The consequences of bad faith peer review are devastating to both physicians and to the public. A physician's reputation and career can be ruined by sham.
In the 1980's the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) and the National Practitioner Data Base (NPDB) were established in an effort to identify negligent physicians via peer review and credentialing procedures. However, one targeted doctor, a general surgeon, Timothy Patrick, sued his accusers on the grounds that the review was designed to drive him out of business so competitors could co-opt his practice. Patrick won and was awarded a jury verdict of $650,000, which the court trebled. Concerned over legal liability hospitals and organized medical institutions pressed for national legislation providing liability protection to physicians who file complaints against colleagues and serve on peer review panels. The resulting measure, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, also established the National Practitioner Data Bank.
A board-certified interventional cardiologist, Dr. Lawrence Poliner, faced a threat of summary suspension and loss of his medical staff privileges after he was targeted with a bad faith peer review. This was a peer review allegedly because of substandard medical care but evidence at trial offered by Poliner showed that there was bias and personal animosity and hospital politics as the real motivations for the peer review.
Under the Heath Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) there was no standard for the provision of evidence against a doctor.
According to HCQIA, a professional review action must be taken –
(1) in the reasonable belief that the action was in furtherance of quality health care,
(2) after a reasonable effort to obtain the facts of the matter,
(3) after adequate notice and hearing procedures are afforded to the physician involved or after such other procedures as are fair to the physician under the circumstances, and
(4) in the reasonable belief that the action was warranted by the facts known after such reasonable effort to obtain facts and after meeting the requirement of paragraph (3)
Notably, Congress first considered a "good faith" standard for peer review.
On July 23,2008, The US Court of Appeals the 5th Circuit, Reversed the judgement in the Dr. Poliner's case, thus granting absolute immunity to the defendants. This was a case of bad faith peer review, and proof that absolute power, corrupts absolutely and invites abuse. In sham peer review the punishment is given to the targeted doctor whether he/she is guilty or not. It actually doesn't matter whether the doctor is guilty or whether the evidence is true or not - there is no standard of evidential proof because there is no due process and the accusers have absolute immunity.
http://www.jpands.org/vol13no4/huntoon.pdf
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