                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMPETENCY ASSESSMENTS OF CERTAIN PRACTITIONERS (§ 54.1-2912.3)

The Board shall require an assessment of the competency of any person holding an
active license under this chapter on whose behalf three separate medical
malpractice judgments or medical malpractice settlements of more than $75,000
each are paid within the most recent 10-year period. The assessment shall be
accomplished in 18 months or less by a program acceptable to the Board. The
licensee shall bear all costs of the assessment. The results of the assessment
shall be reviewed by the Board and the Board shall determine a plan of
corrective action or appropriate resolution pursuant to the assessment. The
assessment, related documents and the processes shall be governed by the
confidentiality provisions of § 54.1-2400.2 and shall not be admissible into
evidence in any medical malpractice action involving the licensee. The Board
shall annually post the number of competency assessments undertaken on its
website.

HISTORY: 2005, cc. 649, 692; 2007, c. 861; 2011, c. 808.