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 Physician Information Currently Available.
Physician Profiling.
Physician Self-Reported Information.
Status of Physician Profiles.
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Physician
Information Currently Available.
The Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and
Discipline provides certain license information about
individual physicians on its website. The information provided includes:
- License Status;
- Specialty and Specialty Board
Certification;
- Education;
- Hospital Affilation;
- Address;
- Whether there has been a Finding of
Unprofessional Conduct;
- Number of Hours of Direct Patient
Care/Week.
The website also contains an alphabetical list of Rhode Island
physicians against whom the Board has taken disciplinary actions.
Physician
Profiling
In 1997, Rhode Island passed a
Profiling Law, Section
5-37-9.2 of the General Laws of Rhode Island, providing for public disclosure of information about physicians through
individual physician profiles. The Rhode Island law is based on the Massachusetts
Physician Profile Law. Many of the categories of information
which would have to be disclosed under the law, are already publicly available on the
website of the Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline. Two important
exceptions are Malpractice Information and Criminal Convictions.
The Rhode Island law requires the Rhode Island
Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline to prepare and publish physician profiles which include the following
information:
- Education;
- Final Disciplinary Actions within the most recent 10 years;
- Criminal Convictions for felonies within the most recent 10 years;
- Hospital Disciplinary Actions for reasons related to competence within the
most recent 10 years;
- Medical malpractice court judgments, arbitration awards and
settlements of malpractice claims during the most recent 10 years in which payments have
been made to the complaining party. Malpractice information must be reported in 3
categories indicating the significance of the payment. The Board has not yet developed
these categories.
Physician
Self-Reported Information.
In addition to the above information, the profiles will include information
which physicians must provide to the Board. This includes:
- Specialty Board Certification;
- Number of Years in Practice;
- Hospital Affiliations
- Primary Practice Location;
- Availability of translation services.
Physicians also have the option of reporting the following for inclusion
in their profiles but are not required to do so.
- Medical School Faculty Appointments
and Graduate Medical Education Responsibilities;
- Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals;
- Professional and Community Service
Activities and Awards.
Contact the Rhode
Island Board to obtain
information about Physician Profiles.
History
of Physician
Profiles.
The Profile law was adopted on July 8, 1997 and went into effect on September 1, 1998.
However, profiles have not yet been published. The Board of Medical Licensure
posted a Notice on its
website in June 1998 announcing that, in early July it would send physicians a Profiles
Application form in order to collect information for the individual physician
profiles required under the Profile law. The Board has not given a date by which the
completed profiles will be available to the public.
Under the law, physicians have 21 days to submit corrections to profile
information. The Board and physician must attempt to resolve any disputes they have
regarding profiles, but if this cannot be done, the Board is required to publish the
disputed information in the profile, with a statement that it is disputed by the
physician.
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