When can a healthcare facility release peer review information?
The statute identifies four situations in which a healthcare facility can release peer review information: 1. A healthcare facility can release relevant peer review information to a state agency or board that licensed the healthcare professional. Thus, the statute permits healthcare facilities to cooperate with state licensing agencies and boards in their official functions. The statute requires the healthcare facility to give notice to the healthcare professional prior to release of information. 2. In a situation where a patient or the patient’s legal representative files a lawsuit against a healthcare professional for negligent provision of healthcare services occurring in a healthcare facility, certain factual statements5 presented during the course of a peer review process will be subject to discovery, but only under the following circumstances: A. The alleged negligence by the healthcare professional must have occurred in the healthcare facility, B. The factual statements, whether
