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Explain how the HCQIA establishes an "objective reasonableness" requirement rather than a subjective "good faith standard" for peer review committees?
HCQIA helps to make a balance in protecting the patient at the sametime with the fairness to the physicians.
Physicians and other healthcare leaders attain less training and inadequate peer reviews during their academics and got posted with less stipends in the hospital for patient care. They learn their skills and job there out of dedication and less pay, with a sense of patient's responsibility. There are lots of non-physicians working in healthcare other than physicians and dentists. hence, rigorous peer reviews are becoming necessary to avoid threat to patients.
Initially , good faith standard for peer review committees were considered good but it is misinterpreted as it requires only a test of subjective state of mind of a physician hence now it changed to be more objective that resonable standards which satisfied the reviewers at the time of peer review.It reasonably restrict physicians incompetent behaviour and thus protect patients.