Court Holds Nevada Hospital in Contempt For Failing to Void Physician’s NPDB Report

A federal trial court July 6 ruled that a public hospital would be sanctioned for failing to abide by an order to void a report made to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) about a physician whose privileges it suspended without a hearing (Chudacoff v. University Medical Center, D. Nev., 2:08-cv-00863-ECR-RJJ, 7/6/12).

The decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada came in the case of Dr. Richard Chudacoff, who lost his staff privileges at defendant University Medical Center (UMC) a few months after he began working there. Chudacoff’s initial action against the facility ...