Dealing with the Disruptive Practitioner in a Legally Compliant Manner
Speaker: William Mack Copeland
Speaker Designation: Principal, Copeland Law LLC
Speaker: William Mack Copeland
Speaker Designation: Principal, Copeland Law LLC
Disruptive activity by practitioners in the hospital takes many forms. When it happens, it is important that the hospital and/or the medical staff take appropriate steps to see that it does not affect patient care or disrupt operations.
This session will explain how a hospital medical staff should deal with the practitioner who is disruptive of hospital operations. It will discuss disruptive practitioner policies a hospital should have in place and practical tips to correct or terminate the disruptive activity.
Disciplinary policies are progressive. A progressive policy applies increasingly more severe sanctions to additional incidents of bad behavior. Without documentation of past performance, when future incidents occur, it is difficult to justify more severe sanctions.
The session will provide an overview of how a hospital medical staff should deal with the practitioner who is disruptive of hospital operations, in a legally compliant manner. You will learn how to deal with the disruptive individual and the situation from the very beginning to the point where it becomes necessary to terminate the practitioner’s privileges and medical staff membership. You will learn what steps to take along the way, both to attempt to correct the disruptive relationship and to build a case that supports taking an adverse action.
This session is designed for hospital executives, physicians who serve on peer review committees and other healthcare providers who participate in physician professional review activities.
William Mack Copeland, MS, JD, PhD, LFACHE, practices health care law in Cincinnati at the firm of Copeland Law, LLC. He is also president of Executive & Managerial Development Group, a consulting entity providing compliance and other fraud and abuse related services. A graduate of Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Bill is a frequent author and speaker on health law topics. Copeland is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, American, Ohio and Cincinnati Bar Associations and is a life fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. A former hospital chief executive officer, he was awarded the American College of Health Care Executives Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award in 2007.