Sec. 4. (a) This section applies to a licensee that receives a peer review rating of fail on a peer review report issued after June 30, 2012, for a peer review conducted under IC 25-2.1-5-8.

(b) The following definitions apply throughout this section:

(1) "Administering entity" refers to the oversight body established or sanctioned by the board to conduct a peer review program.

(2) "Director" refers to the director of the division of consumer protection in the office of the attorney general.

(3) "Oversight committee" refers to a committee of licensees who are not board members that is designated by the board to receive a report.

(4) "Report" refers to a peer review report described in subsection (a), including any description of the deficiencies on which the peer review rating of fail is based.

(c) The board shall provide the director with the name and contact information for the administering entity.

(d) Not more than thirty (30) days after the issuance of a report, the administering entity shall make the report available to the oversight committee. The oversight committee may forward the report to the director. Receipt of the report shall be treated under IC 25-1-7-4, IC 25-1-7-5, and IC 25-1-7-6 as a complaint submitted by the board. If, after conducting an investigation, the director believes that a licensee should be subjected to disciplinary sanctions by the board, the director shall report the director's determination to the attorney general. Upon receiving the director's report, the attorney general may prosecute the matter, on behalf of the state of Indiana, before the board. IC 25-1-7-7(b) does not apply to a determination related to a complaint filed under this section.

(e) The administering entity and the peer review committee issuing a report shall cooperate with an investigation under IC 25-1-7 of a complaint filed under this section and with any resulting proceeding, including compliance with any request for access to or production of the proceedings, records, and work papers of the review committee by the director, the office of the attorney general, or a party to any proceeding initiated as a result of the filing of a complaint under this section. However, all complaints and information pertaining to a complaint are confidential until the attorney general files notice with the board of the attorney general's intent to prosecute a licensee under IC 25-1-7-7. Any meeting of the board, the oversight committee, or a designee of the board or oversight committee that is required in an investigation conducted before the attorney general files notice of intent to prosecute shall be conducted as an executive session under IC 5-14-1.5-6.1.

As added by P.L.197-2011, SEC.83.