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NAMSS CE QUIZ: Questions on The Uncertain Future of
HCQIA Immunity: Guiding Physician Leaders in
Changing Times
See worksheet on page 28.
1. The Health Care Quality
Improvement Act (HCQIA)
provides for immunity from
damages in a suit challenging
an adverse clinical privileges
decision as long as:
a. All members of the MEC act
without malice.
b. The hospital board takes
final action in the reasonable
belief that it was meant to
further quality care,
following a reasonable effort
to obtain the facts, and the
action was warranted by the
facts and taken after
adequate notice and hearing
or waiver of hearing rights.
c. There are no nonphysicians
on any peer review
committees or the board.
d. There is no evidence of
actual bias.
2. The HCQIA provides immunity
for physicians who serve on
peer review committees when
they are dealing with advanced
practice nurses and physician
assistants.
a. True
b. False

3. The HCQIA immunity applies
to all of the following, except:
a. Civil rights claims
b. State law breach of contract
claims
c. Federal antitrust claims
d. State antitrust claims
4. If an employed physician is
over the age of 40, what
federal law is most directly
implicated?
a. Americans with Disabilities
Act
b. Age discrimination in the
Employment Act
c. Title VII of the federal civil
rights statute
d. Stark law

6. The following can be used as
criteria for employment and
appointment:
a. No disciplinary action at
another hospital during the
last five years
b. No history of drug abuse
during the last five years
c. No history of hospitalizations
during the last five years
d. Not over the age of 65
7. If a formerly employed
physician sues the hospital
based on a federal civil rights
claim, and seeks discovery of
the peer review files of other
physicians to examine whether
all similarly situated physicians
were treated uniformly, how is
a federal court likely to rule?

5. In order to be protected by the
Americans with Disabilities Act,
a physician must:

a. Prohibit discovery because
the documents are protected
by the HCQIA.

a. be able to perform the
essential functions of the job

b. Prohibit discovery because
the documents are protected
by the state peer review
statute.

b. be employed by the hospital
c. have a history of alcoholism
or depression
d. undergo a pre-employment
physical examination

c. Permit discovery because the
documents are not protected
by either the HCQIA or the
state peer review statute.
d. Permit discovery because,
while the documents are not
protected by the state peer
review statute, they are
protected by the HCQIA.

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