The NPDB is committed to maintaining accurate information and ensuring that health care practitioners are informed when reports are filed against them. When the NPDB receives a report, the information is processed exactly as it was submitted by the reporting entity.

Subjects should review the report for accuracy, including such information as current address and place of employment.

Subjects who wish to add a statement to and/or dispute the factual accuracy of a report should do so using the Report Response Service. Detailed instructions are included with the Notification of a Report in the Data Bank(s).

The dispute process is not an avenue to protest a payment or to appeal the underlying reasons of an adverse action affecting the subject's license, clinical privileges, or professional society.

Select Next to view a Flow Chart of the Dispute Process or view a text only version.