Who’s Afraid of Performance Data?

November 15, 2011

The National Practitioner Data Bank is back up. The "de-identified" information, which tracks medical malpractice payments, medical review actions, and the sanctions of Boards of Medical Examiners, was removed from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website in September after a reporter was clever enough to match the de-identified data to a court case involving a specific physician (see Critics Not . . .