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HR 5122 106th Congress House

Patient Protection Act of 2000

Official title: To amend the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 to provide for the availability to the public of information reported to the National Practitioner Dat… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 to provide for the availability to the public of information reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank under such Act, to establish additional reporting requirements, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 2, 2000 See on congress.gov
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Sep 7, 2000
Referred to the House Committee on Commerce.
Sep 7, 2000
Introduced in House
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Referred to the House Committee on Commerce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Patient Protection Act of 2000 - Title I: Public Availability of Physician Information in National Practitioner Data Bank - Amends the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations under which the public may obtain, through the Internet, specified physician information contained in the National Practitioner Data Bank, including patient care incidents. Requires the inclusion of information regarding medical malpractice payments and criminal acts.

Title II: Reporting Requirements Regarding National Practitioner Data Bank - Requires the inclusion, within certain reports required for such Data Bank, of information regarding the physician's medical field, date of licensing and years of experience, and professional license number. Requires each State Board of Medical Examiners to report criminal acts of physicians.

Requires each physician to report, for the Data Bank, each felony conviction and sets forth sanctions for failure to report.

Title III: Duty to Obtain Information - Requires Federal hospitals and State Boards of Medical Examiners to obtain physician information required under this Act.

Title IV: General Provisions - Requires the Secretary, on request, to provide State Boards of Medical Examiners a summary of information reported in the Data Bank on physicians licensed in that State.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5122: Patient Protection Act of 2000. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-5122/
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