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Your Site’s Background Check is Illegally Incomplete - Here is why

Darshan Kulkarni

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In this episode, Darshan Kulkarni dives into the terrifying reality of compliance failures at clinical trial sites. While most directors worry about standard fines, the true danger lies in the "off-the-book" penalties and the looming threat of criminal prosecution for employing excluded physicians. If you aren't auditing your lists correctly, you aren't just risking a citation—you're risking your entire career. 

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If you are a clinical trial site, you must have a process of checking these lists to ensure that you are not employing or retaining or contracting with physicians who are on any of these lists. Then there are civil penalties and criminal prosecution, all of which needs to be considered.

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It's also important to recognize that there are some other alternatives, other penalties that may be imposed that are not strictly by the book. And what I mean by that is