Legal review: a case study from California--the sharing of peer review information between hospitals and nonhospital providers.
You are the chief executive officer of Friendly Neighbor Medical Center, an acute care hospital. On your desk is a letter from your counterpart at The Behemoth Clinic, a large local medical group that not only is very active in managed care contracting in your service area, but also has an important relationship with your hospital. Behemoth has requested extensive access to Friendly Neighbor's peer review files and patient records in order to investigate the care provided by one of Behemoth's physicians. You happen to be aware that the physician has been the subject lately of peer review scrutiny at your hospital, and you would like to cooperate with Behemoth. Can you do so without jeopardizing the legal confidentiality protections available to your hospital's peer review records, not to mention the peer review process generally?
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Weissburg and Aronson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
D002140:California; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006753:Hospital Records / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008499:Medical Records / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D018024:Peer Review, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*