HOW TO DESTROY YOUR COMPETITOR (OR SOMEONE YOU DO NOT LIKE) WITH MEDICAL PEER REVIEW Bring the peer review action in the following ways: 1. Cut the physician’s support staff. This generates inefficiency and disharmony in the remaining staff. It also lays the basis for the following. 2. Place a ‘mole’ in the office staff to collect…
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By: Richard B. Willner www.PeerReviewJustice.org info@peerReview.org Regarding “Suspended Physician’s Hearing Put on Hold” ( AMNews ): The concept of a patent’s alleged “imminent danger” coupled with legal immunities guaranteed by the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 ( “HCQIA”) and similar state laws, followed by the Courts’ reluctance it second guess physicians’ “professional”…
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By: Richard B. Willner Center for Peer Review Justice www.PeerReviewJustice.org info@PeerReview.org Medical peer review is the process by which a committee of physicians investigates the medical care rendered by a colleague in order to determine whether accepted standards of care have been met. The professional or personal conduct of a physician may also be investigated.…
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The Warm and Fuzzies of Heathcare by: Richard B. Willner Executive Director The Center for Peer Review Justice The Govt has created a new inter agency task force called HEAT (Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team) under which health-care officials will collaborate with the FBI to go after Medicare fraud. In addition, it…
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By Richard B. Willner, Center for Peer Review Justice, PeerReviewJustice.org Prior to moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2008, Dr C was a renowned minimally invasive gynecological surgeon at Baylor University in Texas. In May of 2008, the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he was an assistant professor, abruptly suspended his clinical privileges without…
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If you are aware of a hospital that ignores safety and uses its bylaws to benefit and shield corporate doctors and nurses and retaliates against independent doctors please call the Exemplary Project. If you are an independent doctor who has suffered an unjust report to the National Practitioner’s Data bank (NPDB) from a malpractice settlement or…
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Shammed I Am, but There’s Hope Fighting a Sham Peer Review or Rebuilding Your Practice After One by William M. Johnston General Surgery News, July 2004 The initial catalyst can be seemingly inconsequential. A preoccupied physician signs off on something he shouldn’t have. The sole female surgeon at a hospital tires of getting into her…
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A Short Modern History of Sham Physician Peer Review Bad Faith Peer Review. Physician Peer Review Fraud By: Richard B. Willner Executive Director The Center for Peer Review Justice In the 1980’s when Wall Street “discovered” hospitals, enormous private dollars entered the health care sector. A new kind of public humility replaced the virtue of…
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By Richard B Willner The Center for Peer Review Justice Richard@PeerReview.org The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is a 20 year experiment created by an act of Congress along with the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 ( HCQIA). The experiment has failed. It is time to abolish this agency. The NPDB is a…
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The Health Care Quality Improvement Act ( HCQIA) Federalized Clinical Peer Review Actions BY RICHARD B. WILLNER Executive Director The Center for Peer Review Justice The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 ( HCQIA) federalized “clinical review actions” ( Peer Review) by a “reporting entity” ( corporation, enterprise) in 1986. Before that, there was…
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