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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that a hospital’s credentials committee qualifies as a review committee, clarifying a key aspect of a 2018 decision in which the justices limited the scope of the Peer Review Protection Act.
The ruling in Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia Consultants—a case in which the Superior Court unanimously affirmed an Allegheny County trial court’s order requiring defendant St. Clair Hospital to produce to plaintiffs in a medical malpractice case the unredacted credentialing file of defendant Dr. Carmen Petraglia—expounds on Peer Review Act standards laid out in the 2018 decision of Reginelli v. Boggs.
