HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(3) THE COMMISSION MAY EXTEND THE REPORTING TIME
UNDER THIS SUBSECTION FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN.

(3)(4) The minutes or notes taken in the course of
determining the denial, limitation, reduction, or termination of
the staff privileges of any physician in a hospital or related
institution are not subject to review or discovery by any person.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved May 27, 1986.

CHAPTER 642
(Senate Bill 560)

AN ACT concerning

Medical Malpractice - Peer Review and Risk
Management - Hospitals

FOR the purpose of altering the membership of the Commission on
Medical Discipline; requiring that copies of certain claims
be forwarded to the Commission and the Medical and
Chirurgical faculty of Maryland; requiring certain

hospitals , and medical societies, and the Health Claims
Arbitration Office to report certain complaints or claims
against physicians to the Commission; providing a civil
penalty for failure to report make certain reports ;
requiring the Commission to notify certain hospitals or
health care facilities of a complaint or report filed
against a physician under certain circumstances; providing
civil immunity to certain persons who report; make certain
reports; requiring the Medical and Chirurgical faculty of
Maryland subject to the approval of the Commission to take

certain action on the receipt of certain information;

requiring as a condition of licensure, that each hospital
establish a certain credentialling process for physicians
and a risk management program; providing certain penalties
for failure to comply with this Act; requiring hospitals to
provide certain documentation to the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene; and generally relating to physician

peer review and hospital risk management.

BY repealling and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 3-2A-04 (a)(1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)