[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR60.10]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                    SUBTITLE A--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

                           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



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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)