A physical therapy facility must turn over a list of potential eyewitnesses after a patient fell during an exercise, a court of common pleas judge has ruled.
Mercer County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel P. Wallace ruled in Simon v. Specialty Orthopaedics that the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 did not apply to the case, and therefore the physical therapy company must comply with the plaintiff’s request for the identities of possible witnesses. Wallace focused on the definition of “health information,” and determined that the information the plaintiff sought did not fall into the category of protected materials.
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