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Health Care Quality Improvement Act
Due to the advent of science and technology, the healthcare and medical malpractices evolved dramatically. The increase of healthcare services grew due to the ability of the medical doctors to move and transfer to other regions without the admission of the adversarial actions or the past malpractice payments. Indeed, the Healthcare Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) of 1986 created professional actions to engage in a national tracking system of physicians.
Healthcare experts could record the medical malpractice outflows called the National Practitioner Data Bank in the tracking system. The only reason that increased the rise of the malpractice actions could be due to the reluctance to participate in the peer-review undertakings. In order to uphold a peer-review inspection, HCQIA delivered protection from the civil money costs to inspire the involvement of the physicians (Health Lawyers Organization). Furthermore, the national requirement to limit the capability of unapt physicians to move from state to state due to the incompetent medical performance. Hence, the Federal Government tried to resolve the problem through effective peer reviews, providing immunity from civil money damages.
Indeed, the HCQIA helps ensure the quality of care delivered in the public. In a very technical term, lawyers and prosecutors should define and report requirements and time frames. The introduction of the National Practitioner Data Bank Guidebook serves as a means for taking legal matters presented in practicable arrangements like the charts.

Healthcare practices, which make medical malpractice payments including insurance policies, settlements, and suitable decisions shall report the payment to the National Practitioner Data Bank and other fitting state-run licensure board (Health Lawyers Organization). Such reporting requests will also apply to the medical malpractice payments for surgeons and other registered healthcare practitioners like the Affordable Care Act Provider Screening and Enrollment requirements. Hence, the HCQIA reporting fits into the law.

Works Cited
Health Lawyers Organization. (2018). Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) of 1986. Retrieved February 11, 2018, from https://www.healthlawyers.org/hlresources/Health%20Law%20Wiki/HCQIA.aspx