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Liability Coverage For Volunteer Health Care Practitioners

 

Pursuant to § 54.1-106, Code of Virginia, DRM offers medical malpractice coverage for health care practitioners who volunteer their services at Virginia's free clinics. This coverage is available regardless of whether the clinic itself is covered through DRM. Eligibility criteria and other details regarding this coverage can be found in § 54.1-106.

 

IMPORTANT: Coverage is not effective unless the clinic at which the volunteer serves has registered him or her with DRM. Registration of volunteers is managed online using DRM's secure, web-based system, Civitas™. For more information about Civitas, click here.

 

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Claims Histories For Individual Health Care Practitioners

 

The medical malpractice coverage provided by DRM's various risk management plans is funded by state government and other public entities, not individual health care practitioners. DRM does not maintain claims histories for individual practitioners and cannot provide such information for credentialing or other purposes.

 

Under certain circumstances, DRM is required by law to report medical malpractice payments to the National Practitioner Data Bank and the Virginia Department of Health Professions. Although we are prohibited by law from disclosing these reports to third parties, you may be able to obtain more information directly from the NPDB or the VDHP.

 

Although the Division of Risk Management is unable to assist with legal questions or the application of the law to specific facts, we welcome your feedback about our website.