HEALTH CARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1986: A LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF PUB. L. NO. 99-660

Reams, Bernard D., Jr.

In order to encourage more stringent peer review by doctorsand hospitals, and to protect reporting physicians andinstitutions from retaliatory lawsuits, Congress enactedThe Health Care Quality Improvement Act. The Act was alsointended to address the increasing incidence of medicalmalpractice and to prevent the ease with which incompetentpractitioners moved from state to state.William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1990; 2009