IMQ offers customized peer review to assist medical staffs Did you know that the Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ), a subsidiary of the California Medical Association (CMA), offers peer review consultations? IMQ currently offers two types of consultations—a clinical case review or a comprehensive evaluation of a physician’s practice. In both cases, IMQ's physician reviewers are in active practice in the clinical specialty or sub-specialty of the case selected for peer review. These services are customized for each medical staff, group or clinic, with fees based on the scope of services provided. Upon completion, the reviewers create a report detailing ... August 8, 2016 General IMQ, Institute for Medical Quality, Peer Review, Hospital Medical Staff, Medical Staff 0 0 Comment Read More »
IMQ offers judicial review service to hospitals In the case of certain disciplinary actions, physicians are entitled by California law to a fair hearing by their peers. The California Medical Association's Institute for Medical Quality's (IMQ) Judicial Review program helps hospitals meet that requirement by providing qualified, independent physicians to serve on panels. Hospitals sometimes struggle to create unbiased judicial review panels and often have difficulty finding physicians without any perceived conflict of interest who are available to serve on consecutive days. IMQ meets that need by providing three or more qualified, independent physician panelists to hear ... September 8, 2015 General Peer Review, Institute for Medical Quality 0 0 Comment Read More »
IMQ offers two types of peer review to assist medical staffs The California Medical Association’s Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) now provides two types of peer review services for medical staffs, including a clinical review of individual cases as well as a comprehensive evaluation of a physician’s entire practice. These services are customized for each medical staff, group or clinic, with fees based on the scope of services provided. IMQ peer review services are most helpful when the medical staff’s peer review body, with the consent of the subject physician, has freely sought such services as an aid to its ... April 8, 2015 General Institute for Medical Quality, Medical Staff, Peer Review, IMQ 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMA files amicus brief in physician whistle-blower case Last week, the California Medical Association (CMA) and the American Medical Association (AMA) filed an amicus curiae brief in the California Supreme Court to urge for broad protection of physician whistleblowers in hospitals. The brief focuses on a medical staff physician’s rights as a whistleblower under Health & Safety Code section 1278.5. In the case, Fahlen v. Sutter Central Valley Hospitals et al., the plaintiff physician alleged that his staff privileges were terminated in retaliation for reporting nursing errors and insubordination to the hospital. He sued the hospital under section ... July 25, 2013 General Hospitals and Health Facilities, Peer Review, Legal Advocacy 0 0 Comment Read More »
