The proposed legislation, which just passed the state House, would offer more protections for Idaho hospitals that adopt a peer review process to credential their physicians.
The bill stems from a state Supreme Court decision over a patient treated at Boise, Idaho-based St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in 2003. The patient accused the hospital of “negligently credentialing” a physician who treated him, according to the news report. St. Alphonsus argued it was immune from the negligence lawsuit, but the Supreme Court ruled against the hospital.
Read the news report about Idaho’s hospital immunity bill.
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