Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia Consultants, Ltd., No. 86 WAL 2020

• Decision Date: 15 September 2020
• Docket Number: No. 86 WAL 2020
• Citation: 239 A.3d 11 (Table)
• Parties: James E. LEADBITTER and Tammy M. Leadbitter, his Wife v. 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 v. Carmen Petraglia, M.D. and South Hills Orthopaedic Surgery Associates, a Corporation Petition of: St. Clair Hospital
• Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

239 A.3d 11 (Table)

James E. LEADBITTER and Tammy M. Leadbitter, his Wife

v.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

v.Carmen Petraglia, M.D. and South Hills Orthopaedic Surgery Associates, a Corporation

Petition of: St. Clair Hospital

No. 86 WAL 2020

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

September 15, 2020

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, 645 Pa. 470, 181 A.3d 293 (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?