The Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB) was created to combat healthcare fraud and abuse; it isno longer operational as a separate bank, and its content was merged into the NPDB. Reporting and querying are governed by HRSA rules defining authorized entities, including certain peer review and oversight organizations in specific reporting frameworks. Risk management objectives include ensuring organizations understand which actions must be reported, ensure due process, and comply with data handling rules. Proper reporting supports system integrity by preventing practitioners or entities with serious adverse actions from moving undetected across organizations. For hospitals and health plans, this strengthens credentialing and contracting decisions, reducing organizational exposure to negligent credentialing and improper network participation risks.