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.