---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 60.17"
title: "45"
number: "60.17"
heading: "Information which hospitals must request from the National Practitioner Data Bank."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/60.17"
---

# §60.17. Information which hospitals must request from the National Practitioner Data Bank.

- (a) **When information must be requested.** Each hospital, either directly or through an authorized agent, must request information from the NPDB concerning a health care practitioner, as follows:
  - (1) At the time a health care practitioner applies for a position on its medical staff (courtesy or otherwise) or for clinical privileges at the hospital; and
  - (2) Every 2 years for any health care practitioner who is on its medical staff (courtesy or otherwise) or has clinical privileges at the hospital.
- (b) **Failure to request information.** Any hospital which does not request the information as required in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section is presumed to have knowledge of any information reported to the NPDB concerning this health care practitioner.
- (c) **Reliance on the obtained information.** Each hospital may rely upon the information provided by the NPDB to the hospital. A hospital shall not be held liable for this reliance unless the hospital has knowledge that the information provided was false.

## Notes

### Amendments

[78 FR 20484, Apr. 5, 2013, 78 FR 25860, May 6, 2013]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 11101-11152; 42 U.S.C. 1396r-2; 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7e

### Source

Source: 78 FR 20484, Apr. 5, 2013, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[78 FR 20484, Apr. 5, 2013, 78 FR 25860, May 6, 2013]