IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
WESTERN DISTRICT
JAMES E. LEADBITTER AND TAMMY M. : No. 86 WAL 2020
LEADBITTER, HIS WIFE :
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: Petition for Allowance of Appeal
v. : from the Order of the Superior Court
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KEYSTONE ANESTHESIA :
CONSULTANTS, LTD., A CORPORATION, :
CHRISTOPHER MERCK, D.O., AJOY :
KATARI, M.D., JOHN P. WELDON, M.D., :
LAURA V. MCNEILL, M.D., AND ST. CLAIR :
HOSPITAL :
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v. :
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CARMEN PETRAGLIA, M.D. AND SOUTH :
HILLS ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY :
ASSOCIATES, A CORPORATION :
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PETITION OF: ST. CLAIR HOSPITAL :
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 15th day of September, 2020, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal
is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Whether the Superior Court’s holding directly conflicts with the
Pennsylvania Peer Review Protection Act, 69 P.S. §§ 425.1, et seq., and
misapplies Reginelli v. Boggs, 181 A.3d 293 (Pa. 2018), by ordering the
production of acknowledged “peer review documents” solely because they
were maintained in a physician’s credentialing file?
(2) Whether the Superior Court’s holding directly conflicts with the Federal
Healthcare Quality improvement Act, 42 U.S.C. § 11137(B)(1), and federal
regulations which protect from disclosure, responses to statutorily-required
inquiries of the national practitioner data bank, by ordering the production
of such documents solely because they were maintained in physician’s
credentialing file?
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