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The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is a web-based repository of reports containing information on medical malpractice payments and certain adverse actions related to health care practitioners, providers and suppliers. Established by Congress as part of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA), it is a workforce tool that prevents practitioners from moving state to state without disclosure or discovery of previous damaging performance. The impetus behind the NPBD was the perception that quality improvement and medical malpractice had become nationwide problems too big to manage at the state level. HCQIA called for the creation of a national database “to protect peer review bodies from private money damage liability and to prevent incompetent practitioners from moving state to state without disclosure or discovery of previous damaging or incompetent performance.”
Law.com, Physician ‘Blacklisting’ by the National Practitioner Data Bank, Vasilios J. Kalogredis, 2019
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