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38 entriesSection 800Requires specified healing-arts boards to maintain central historical files containing convictions, qualifying judgments or settlements over $3,000, complaints, and specified disciplinary reports.…Section 801Requires professional-liability insurers to report specified settlements or arbitration awards within 30 days, generally over $3,000 but over $10,000 for listed behavioral-health,…Section 801.01Requires reports to the appropriate medical, osteopathic, podiatric, or physician-assistant board for settlements over $30,000 and arbitration awards or civil judgments of…Section 801.1Requires self-insuring state or local agencies to report qualifying settlements or arbitration awards within 30 days after a signed settlement or service…Section 802Requires uninsured covered licensees to report qualifying malpractice settlements, judgments, or arbitration awards within 30 days, using a $3,000 threshold generally and…Section 802.1Requires physicians and surgeons, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, podiatrists, and physician assistants to report in writing to their licensing entity any felony…Section 802.5Requires a coroner to report to the appropriate medical, osteopathic, podiatric, or physician-assistant board when qualified pathology findings indicate a death may…Section 803Requires a court clerk, generally within 10 days, to report to the issuing agency a covered licensee’s criminal judgment or negligence-related death…Section 803.1Requires specified California medical licensing boards to disclose enforcement actions, felony convictions, license status, qualifications, certain judgments, awards, settlements, and hospital disciplinary…Section 803.5Requires a prosecuting agency to notify the appropriate medical or allied-health board and court clerk immediately after learning that felony charges were…Section 803.6Requires court clerks to send felony preliminary-hearing transcripts concerning defendant licensees to the appropriate medical or allied health board when the transcript…Section 804Allows reporting agencies to prescribe mandatory report forms and sets the information needed for reports to be complete, including parties, providers, insurers,…Section 804.5Prohibits an entity providing or contracting for early-intervention, patient-safety, or risk-management programs from including terms that bar patients from contacting or cooperating…Section 805Defines peer review, peer review body, licentiate, agency, staff privileges, medical disciplinary cause or reason, and an 805 report, and requires designated…Section 805.01Requires designated peer-review and facility officials to report within 15 days a final proposed disciplinary action following a formal investigation involving specified…Section 805.1Allows the Medical, Podiatric Medical, Osteopathic Medical, and Dental boards to inspect and copy specified records from disciplinary proceedings that produced a…Section 805.2Requires the Medical Board of California to contract with an independent, unbiased entity to study peer review, while requiring covered peer-review bodies…Section 805.5Requires covered health facilities and organizations, before granting or renewing specified practitioners’ staff privileges, to request licensing-board reports about prior privilege denials,…Section 805.6Requires the Medical, Podiatric Medical, Osteopathic Medical, and Dental boards to establish an electronic system giving qualified subscribers early notice of newly…Section 805.7Requires the Medical Board to work with interested parties to pursue and establish a pilot program for early detection of quality-of-care problems…Section 805.8Requires health care facilities and other entities to report a patient’s or representative’s written allegation of sexual abuse or sexual misconduct by…Section 805.9Prohibits a licensed health facility from denying, removing, or restricting staff privileges solely because of another state’s judgment, conviction, or discipline based…Section 806Requires each department agency receiving the specified reports to prepare a statistical report for the Legislature no later than 30 days after…Section 807Requires each agency in the department to notify every person it licenses, certifies, or otherwise authorizes about the provisions of the article.…Section 808Requires reports affecting respiratory care practitioners that are required under the specified reporting provisions to be filed with the Respiratory Care Board…Section 808.5Requires reports affecting psychologists that are required under the specified reporting provisions to be filed with the Board of Psychology within the…Section 809Defines “healing arts practitioner,” “licentiate,” and “peer review body” for the specified peer-review provisions, while declaring California’s policy that fairly conducted peer…Section 809.05Establishes state policy that peer review be performed by licentiates, while allowing acute-care hospital governing bodies to direct investigations or discipline after…Section 809.08Requires a peer review body, upon payment of reasonable processing costs, to provide another peer review body relevant information about a licentiate…Section 809.1Requires a peer review body to give a licentiate written notice of a final proposed action that would be reportable, including the…Section 809.2Requires a timely requested peer-review hearing to use an unbiased factfinder and provides document access, witness and exhibit exchanges, impartiality challenges, and…Section 809.3Establishes hearing rights for both sides in reportable peer-review matters, including access to information, a record, witnesses, cross-examination, evidence, and closing statements.…Section 809.4Requires that after a hearing on a reportable final proposed action, both the licentiate and peer review body receive the factfinder’s written…Section 809.5Allows a peer review body to immediately suspend or restrict clinical privileges when delay may create imminent danger, provided later notice and…Section 809.6Requires parties to follow additional notice and hearing provisions in applicable professional-society or medical-staff bylaws and relevant agreements or contracts when those…Section 809.7Exempts peer review proceedings in specified state, county, University of California, and medical-school teaching hospitals, and licentiates in approved postgraduate medical education,…Section 809.8Establishes that the peer review provisions do not alter the availability of judicial review under the referenced Code of Civil Procedure provision.…Section 809.9Requires a court in a lawsuit challenging a reportable peer-review action or restriction to award suit costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees, to…