Suit surfaces questions on status of PSROs.
The federal court ruling that the Washington, DC, Professional Standards Review Organization (PSRO) is a government agency for purposes of the Freedom of Information Act raises interesting questions about the future legal status of PSROs and about government regulation in the health care field. PSROs should be seen as experiments in government regulation--continuously changing, and hopefully improving, mechanisms.
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