John
Heyob is the new director of the Bureau of Health Professions’
Division of Quality Assurance, which oversees operation of
the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and Healthcare
Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB).
He succeeds Tom Croft, who retired last November.
Heyob
served as deputy director of the bureau’s Division of Medicine
and Dentistry prior to his appointment as DQA director.
The
NPDB contains information on adverse licensure, clinical privileges,
and professional society membership actions taken against
physicians and dentists.
Other health care practitioners also may be reported.
In addition, the NPDB collects reports of medical malpractice
payments made on behalf of health care practitioners.
The HIPDB is a national health care fraud and abuse
data collection program for the reporting and disclosure of
certain final adverse actions taken against health care providers,
suppliers or practitioners.
Heyob
has held a wide variety of staff and managerial positions
in the Department of Health and Human Services, starting in
1968 as a public health advisor with the Centers for Disease
Control. In 1971
he was selected for the Health Services and Mental Health
Administration’s management intern program.
Other notable assignments include serving as a senior
policy analyst for Health Professions Programs in the Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Health, as director of the
Office of Health Planning in the Health Resources Administration,
and as director of BHPr’s Office of Program Development.
Heyob earned a master of business administration
degree from the George Washington University, Washington,
D.C. .
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