[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR60.10]

[Page 140]
 
                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 60--NATIONAL PRACTITIONER DATA BANK FOR ADVERSE INFORMATION ON 
PHYSICIANS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart C--Disclosure of Information by the National Practitioner Data 
                                  Bank
 
Sec. 60.10  Information which hospitals must request from the National 
Practitioner Data Bank.


    (a) When information must be requested. Each hospital, either 
directly or through an authorized agent, must request information from 
the Data Bank concerning a physician, dentist or other health care 
practitioner as follows:
    (1) At the time a physician, dentist or other health care 
practitioner applies for a position on its medical staff (courtesy or 
otherwise), or for clinical privileges at the hospital; and
    (2) Every 2 years concerning any physician, dentist, or other health 
care practitioner who is on its medical staff (courtesy or otherwise), 
or has clinical privileges at the hospital.
    (b) Failure to request information. Any hospital which does not 
request the information as required in paragraph (a) of this section is 
presumed to have knowledge of any information reported to the Data Bank 
concerning this physician, dentist or other health care practitioner.
    (c) Reliance on the obtained information. Each hospital may rely 
upon the information provided by the Data Bank to the hospital. A 
hospital shall not be held liable for this reliance unless the hospital 
has knowledge that the information provided was false.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0915-0126)