Alliance for Patient Safety

                            All that is necessary for the triumph of evil...
                                                                ... is for good men to do nothing.

                                                                                                   Edmund Burke

Laws - Sham Peer Review

  1. State of California - passed AB 632 extending whistleblower protections to all physicians.
    AB 632 was initiated by CMA resolution 606-06 of October 2006
    Read Bill as approved by Governor on October 14, 2007
    Read Legal Analysis of AB 632 by Greg Abrams, Esq.

  2. CMS may not pay hospitals for care due to hospital errors - see section III E
    Read Proposed Rule

  3. Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
    U.S. Code: Title 42: Section 1981, 1983, 1985, 2000a-6
    Read Law

  4. HB 2371 - Patient safety bill passed Pennsylvania State House but died in Senate
    Download Bill in PDF Format

  5. HB 2695 - Public Employees; Information Disclosure Whistleblower protection act failed in Arizona legislature. The sponsor of the bill withdrew it in under the table deal with the Governor
    Read Bill

  6. Federal Whistleblower Laws and Regulations - from National Whistleblower Center - www.whistleblowers.org