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HHS/HRSA RIN: 0906-AA41 Publication ID: Fall 2008 
Title: National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners: Medical Malpractice Payments Reporting Requirements 
Abstract: This notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) proposes to require that, in addition to reporting to the National Practitioner Data Bank, medical malpractice payments made where physicians or other health care practitioners are named in medical malpractice actions or claims, judgments, or settlements, payments be reported where they are made for the benefit of physicians or other health care practitioners not named in the judgments or settlements but who furnished or failed to furnish the health care services upon which the actions or claims were based. The purpose of this NPRM is to prevent the evasion of the medical malpractice payment reporting requirement of the Data Bank through the agreement of the parties to a lawsuit to use the corporate health care entity to "shield" practitioners. It would also require malpractice payers, in very limited circumstances, when it is impossible to identify the practitioner who furnished or failed to furnish the health care services upon which the actions or claims were based, to report why the practitioner could not be identified, and to provide the name of the corporate health care entity. 
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services(HHS)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 45 CFR 60.7   
Legal Authority: 42 USC 11131   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  12/24/1998  63 FR 71255   
NPRM Comment Period End  02/22/1999    
Second NPRM  To Be Determined    
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Darryl A. Gray
Director, Division of Practitioner Data Banks, Bureau of Health Professions
Department of Health and Human Services
Health Resources and Services Administration
Room 8-103, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone:301 443-0910
Fax:301 443-6725