Numbers reveal how often, or how rarely, states check doctors’ disciplinary records
How often does your state medical board search doctors in the National Practitioner Data Bank?
Surprisingly not often, according to data provided to the Association of Health Care Journalists by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, which runs the data bank.
Get a spreadsheet showing how often each state medical board searches for doctors in the National Practitioner Data Bank. One worksheet shows information about physicians, the other shows information about residents and interns.
AHCJ and other media groups have been pushing the government to restore unfettered access to the Public Use File of the data bank, citing important stories that journalists have written about lax oversight of doctors by state medical boards.
State medical boards have access to complete information within the data bank about a doctors disciplinary history, hospital sanctions and malpractice payouts.
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