Specialty medical peer review
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Specialty medical peer review is the evaluation of matters that deal with quality of treatment, appropriateness of care, utilization and irregular billing rendered by a physician in a narrow specialty to a patient. The specialty peer review committee can act at the request of a patient, a physician, or a carrier. An independent review organization can provide specialty medical reviews for a wide range of medical specialties.
It is the obligation of the peer review committee to conduct unbiased and objective investigations. Specialty peer review panels are often formed by medical associations, insurance companies, health plan carriers or even a state.
Due to the rising cost of healthcare, specialty review committees are emerging as an accepted practice to contain medical costs because of the expertise practicing specialists can provide.
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Definition of Specialty Medical Peer Review Specialty Peer review's have become an accepted practice in the medical cost containment industry. There are many cost containment measures available to reduce costs but we believe there is no substitute for the expertise a practicing specialist can provide.
Specialty Medical Review as Accepted Medical Practice The medical profession should also move to do its own reform. There is no reason why the Medical Council cannot establish a quality assurance body. There is no reason why public hospitals cannot organize specialty peer review groups to analyse data, performance and standards of individual practitioners within that specialty in order to advise the hospital management the competence or otherwise of individual doctors.
