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[CITE: 42USC11101]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
   CHAPTER 117--ENCOURAGING GOOD FAITH PROFESSIONAL REVIEW ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 11101. Findings

    The Congress finds the following:
        (1) The increasing occurrence of medical malpractice and the 
    need to improve the quality of medical care have become nationwide 
    problems that warrant greater efforts than those that can be 
    undertaken by any individual State.
        (2) There is a national need to restrict the ability of 
    incompetent physicians to move from State to State without 
    disclosure or discovery of the physician's previous damaging or 
    incompetent performance.
        (3) This nationwide problem can be remedied through effective 
    professional peer review.
        (4) The threat of private money damage liability under Federal 
    laws, including treble damage liability under Federal antitrust law, 
    unreasonably discourages physicians from participating in effective 
    professional peer review.
        (5) There is an overriding national need to provide incentive 
    and protection for physicians engaging in effective professional 
    peer review.

(Pub. L. 99-660, title IV, Sec. 402, Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3784.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal antitrust laws, referred to in par. (4), are classified 
generally to chapter 1 (Sec. 1 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.


                               Short Title

    Section 401 of title IV of Pub. L. 99-660 provided that: ``This 
title [enacting this chapter and provisions set out as a note under 
section 11111 of this title] may be cited as the `Health Care Quality 
Improvement Act of 1986'.''
