The Superior Court has refused to let State College-based Geisinger Clinic out of a suit filed by a doctor alleging defamation after it issued a report stating that he was terminated over concerns about his “professional conduct and clinical competency and/or judgment.”
A three-judge panel reversed a Centre County trial court’s ruling granting Geisinger’s motion for summary judgment on the basis of immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, which mandates that hospitals issue a National Practitioner Data Bank Report when a physician joins a hospital and every two years after that.
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