Joint commission to crack down on altering QA records

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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations announced it will issue a new policy clarifying its hospital peer review standards. The announcement followed allegations that two New York City hospitals altered their peer review records to look better on quality surveys. Quality review experts said that it is permissible to retrospectively change peer review records to include actions that were not recorded when they took place, such as conversations. However, such changes should be clearly identified, dated and initialed.

Investigations, Licensing, certification and accreditation, Hospital accreditation

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Doctors trail in race to organize managed care

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Managed care plans dominate the Florida health care market, and physicians fear loss of earnings. For-profit hospital companies are building networks for hospital and outpatient care centers, and nonprofit hospitals are buying up doctors' practices. Physicians are also organizing. For instance, the Orlando Health Care Group of 75 physicians contracts with Prudential Insurance Co's health maintenance organization, whose members include employees of the Walt Disney Co.

Accident & Health Insurance, Insurance Carriers, Health Maintenance Organizations, HMO Medical Centers, Medical Service and Health Insurance, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Health aspects, Management, Florida, Medical care, Physicians, Medical professions, Hospital administration, Orlando, Florida

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Joint Commission bans sanitizing peer review records

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The governing board of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations approved on May 9, 1992, a policy that will penalize health care facilities caught rewriting peer review records in order to pass quality inspections. Under the policy, facilities caught rewriting records will lose their accreditation, or be denied accreditation, for a minimum of one year.

Standards, Health care industry

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