NPDB
What Is the NPDB?
Here is a plain-language explanation of the federal database at the center of every credentialing decision in American healthcare — from someone who spent 7 years operating it from the inside.
NPDB
Here is a plain-language explanation of the federal database at the center of every credentialing decision in American healthcare — from someone who spent 7 years operating it from the inside.
Physicians
The NPDB cannot evaluate whether the standard of care was met. It has no jurisdiction to do so. Physicians who don't know this before filing a dispute often find out too late
Insights
A physician can have a permanent NPDB record created because of an investigation they were never told was happening. Here is what you need to understand before you act.