Review the following lecture:
Legal and Regulatory Issues
Introduction:
The 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act established a database that is intended to improve the quality of healthcare in this country. Two other databases have merged with it and now offer many potential advantages.
Tasks:
Describe the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB).
Identify the uses of the NPDB.
Analyze any limitations of the NPDB.
Describe how NPDB relates to billing for services.
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