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R -- Medical Review Panelists MEDICAL REVIEW PANELISTS
- Notice Date
- 5/7/2019
- Notice Type
- Synopsis
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;400 Fort Hill Ave.;Canandaigua NY 14424
- ZIP Code
- 14424
- Solicitation Number
- 36C24219R0113
- Archive Date
- 8/14/2019
- Point of Contact
- 585-393-7853
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is not a solicitation. This is a Request for Information (RFI) announcement only. The purpose of this notice is to conduct market research and obtain information from qualified vendors with capabilities to perform Medical Panel Review Services for the Office of Medical and Legal Affairs. This RFI shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary; the Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the Government. Statement of Government Need: After a VHA malpractice claim is paid, VHA reviews the care to determine if a paid malpractice claim report to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) malpractice report division is required. This process is overseen by the VHA Office of Medical-Legal Affairs (OMLA). The OMLA determination is provided is by a majority vote of a virtual OMLA review panel (RP). At the OMLA RP, the contract clinicians discuss their review of the care associated with the paid malpractice claim and its congruence to the standard of care in effect at the time of the paid malpractice claim incident. Because patient care involves multiple practitioners from diverse physician specialties and subspecialties as well as allied health, this requires OMLA s readily-available access to diverse types of clinicians. OMLA requires contract support for the services of private sector clinicians who are board certified in their specialty or subspecialty, or if allied health, licensed in their profession. OMLA requires a contractor that can provide these private sector clinician reviewers, in advance of the OMLA RPs, that assess the pertinent medical records associated and provide OMLA a written summary and evaluation of care. The Veteran s complete medical record is available to the contractor through the VA electronic medical record (EMR) system. The contractor s clinicians must also practitioner statements regarding the care provided and other review materials are made accessible by OMLA to the contractor in pdf format. How Contractor gets access to the needed information: VA will provide the contractor administrative staff remote VA electronic access through VA Citrix Access Gateway (CAG). The electronic medical records (EMR) reside on VA servers that can be accessed after the CAG portal is accessed. Currently JLV is the program for access to VA EMR. OMLA will facilitate this for contractor administrative staff. Statements from involved practitioners and other pertinent information are provided by OMLA as pdf documents to the Contractor. Currently, this is via a VA secure SharePoint. As no information that has Veteran PHI or PII can reside outside of VA secure systems, the contractor can also have read/write access to a VA secure space (a drive that is shared with OMLA) that resides behind the VA firewall for the storage and manipulation of the VA information and the creation of written reviewer reports to return to OMLA. A solution is needed for the below: Because VA has been successful in supporting CAG access for the contractor administrative personnel but has had intermitted success in supporting CAG for their private sector contract reviewing physicians and allied health clinicians, we are seeking non-CAG contractor solutions for the contractor to provide the pertinent EMR and the other review documents to their clinician reviewers and receive back from their clinician reviewers the assessments of the care provided. The contractor maintains responsibility to provide the pertinent EMR and other review documents to the assigned reviewer in a manner congruent with VA and VHA policies and must comply with VA Handbook 6500.6 Contract Security and VA Handbook 6500.3 Certification and Accreditation of VA Information Systems. The solution must include the contractor s secure receipt of the reviews of care from the contract reviewers. A formal RFP may be issued based upon the findings of the information received pertaining to this Request for Information. If you are capable of meeting the requirements as detailed in this notice please send your responses via email as a PDF attachment no later than (NLT) 4:00 PM EST on May 17, 2019 to Jeanette Crooks, Contracting Officer, at Jeanette.Crooks@va.gov. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (07-MAY-2019); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT 877-472-3779 or fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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