What is National Practitioner Data Bank?

It is the National Practitioners Data Bank Center that keeps the record of adverse actions taken against doctors, dentists, physicians, nurses, and other medical, healthcare and medicare professionals. It records if these practitioner’s privileges and licenses have ever been reduced, suspended or revoked due to their unprofessional conduct or incompetency. By and large, when the licenses of such practitioners get suspended or revoked, it is because of their professional misconduct or incompetency.  

Every hospital submits to the National Practitioners Data Bank this type of data, in an NPDB Report, concerning their professional staff. In this type of report, the institution states information about the reduction, suspension and revocation of hospital staff privileges concerning its professional medical staff.  The members of staff could be doctors, physicians, dentists, and their licensed assistants. The report is supposed to specify the facts of a medical professional’s suspension or revocation of privileges. Licensing Boards do the same.

If the name of a doctor, physician or professional medical staff member makes it way to the NPDB report, it will extremely difficult if not impossible for him/her to practice in the United States because this is a Nationwide Data Bank. These reports are queried by the state and certification authorities, hospitals and malpractice carriers whenever a professional seeks a job, staff privileges, licensure, insurance or any other incident of a professional practice. It cannot be ignored. If you are named adversely in a Report, it can make a total mess of one’s medical career. It maligns the reputation of the practitioners. It brings an insidious statement that this doctor or physician or nurse should not be hired or given privileges.

How To Get Your Reputation Protected?

An experienced National Practitioner Data Bank Lawyer can assist a healthcare professional resolve such disparaging reports. Most healthcare attorneys have never corrected a single National Practitioner Data Bank entry.

Twice we have forced the NPDB to seek and obtain correction of inaccurate data bank entries from those who caused the entries to be made. We do not believe that any other firm can make that claim. If you have an attorney who says he can do it, ask him if he has ever done it. We have. An inaccurate or illegally made or illegally procured entry can greatly impede or jeopardize your practice, more than most anything else. Call to see how we may be able to help you. 301-670-0016.