Health care facilities: physicians and surgeons: terminations and revocation of staff privileges: data reporting by race and gender.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact wording regarding prohibition on sharing names and other personal information, which was included in the candidate explanation.

Health Care Facilities: Reporting on Physician and Surgeon Privileges

The bill requires health care facilities to report data about physicians, surgeons, and medical residents who lose or gain staff privileges based on race and gender.

What This Bill Does

• Requires health care facilities to submit a yearly report by March 1st with information about doctors and surgeons whose staff privileges were changed due to disciplinary reasons.
• Includes the number of doctors and surgeons terminated, those applying for staff privileges, those granted or denied staff privileges, and those having their privileges suspended or revoked.
• Requires this data to be broken down by race and gender.
• Asks the Civil Rights Department to publish an aggregated report on its website by September 1st each year without revealing personal information.

Who It Names or Affects

• Health care facilities
• Physicians and surgeons
• Medical residents

Terms To Know

Peer review process

A system where doctors evaluate each other's work to ensure quality.

805 report

A document filed when a doctor loses staff privileges or employment due to disciplinary reasons.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what actions will be taken based on the reported data.
• It is unclear how this information will be used by regulatory bodies after publication.
• There are no details about penalties for non-compliance with reporting requirements.

Official Summary Text

SB 679, as amended, Weber Pierson.
Health care facilities: physicians and surgeons: terminations and revocation of staff privileges: data reporting by race and gender.
Existing law establishes a peer review process for certain healing arts licensees and requires peer review bodies to review licensee conduct under specified circumstances. If a licentiate’s membership, staff privileges, or employment is terminated or revoked for a medical disciplinary cause or reason, existing law requires the chief executive officer or administrator of a licensed health care facility, among others, to file an “805 report” with the relevant state licensing agency having regulatory jurisdiction over the licentiate.
This bill would require a health care facility or peer review body, on or before March 1 of each year, to submit a report to the Civil Rights Department
and the Medical Board of California
that includes, among other data, the number
of physicians and surgeons and medical residents at the health care facility who were terminated, the number of physicians and surgeons who
applied
completed an application
for staff privileges, were granted staff privileges, or for whom staff privileges were
suspended or
revoked, and the number of physicians and surgeons or medical residents in those categories, stratified by race and gender. The bill would require the Civil Rights Department, on or before September 1 of each year, to publish the
data
information
on the
department’s internet
website without disclosing
website, would require the information to be aggregated and deidentified, and would prohibit disclosure of
the names of the health care facilities or any personally identifiable information.
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

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