Sentence examples for peer review organization from inspiring English sources

Mr. Shipp filed a complaint with the local peer review organization six months later.

He filed a complaint, which was investigated by a group of medical quality experts known as a peer review organization.

But federal rules used to carry out the law say the peer review organization may disclose information about a doctor only "with the consent of that practitioner".

Two of the doctors who cared for Mrs. Shipp refused to allow disclosure of the findings of the peer review organization.

Mr. Levine said he had recently received a report about the investigation from the peer review organization, Florida Medical Quality Assurance Inc., which has a contract with the government to investigate complaints about Medicare service in Florida.

When a Medicare patient complains of substandard care, the complaint is investigated by a group of doctors known as a peer review organization, which acts as an agent for the government.

The peer review organizations are powerful watchdogs.

The federal manual for peer review organizations includes similar language about disclosure.

The judge ordered Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, to send a letter to peer review organizations within 20 days, telling them they must disclose the results of investigations to beneficiaries who file complaints.

But doctors and peer review organizations said they feared that doctors would be less willing to cooperate with investigations if they knew that the findings might be disclosed to patients.

The President's Proposal broadens access to the data bank to quality control and peer review organizations and private plans that are involved in furnishing items or services reimbursed by Federal health care program.