Blaming the doctor is cheaper than fixing the record system

A pediatrician gave a child vaccines the chart said he needed. The record showing he had already had them was buried in the system. Dennis Hursh is a health law attorney and founder of Physician Agreements Health Law. This episode is based on his article "EMR errors get blamed on physicians, not systems," published on KevinMD. The health system did not fix the record system. It counseled the physician and moved to put her on a corrective action plan for failing to follow its vaccine policy. He explains why she resigned rather than carry that on her record, what a corrective action plan does to you at credentialing for the next five years, and why a non-compete means she will not see those patients again after 40 years in that community. He also walks through the contract language he negotiates: an agreed independent reviewer, and 60 days to fix anything the reviewer finds. Stay to the end for his argument that due process belongs in your contract before anyone accuses you of poor quality care.

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