Dibble v. Penn State Geisinger Clinic, Inc.

¶ 1 This is an appeal from the denial of a motion for a confidentiality order presented by defendants, the Geisinger Health Plan HMO and certain of its participating health care providers, which sought to prevent plaintiff from disclosing, disseminating and/or otherwise publishing numerous pages of documents that the defendants produced during discovery conducted in an underlying medical malpractice action. The documents pertained to the HMO’s managed care procedures, and included, inter alia, information regarding individual physicians’ compensation, HMO salary/bonus incentive procedures as…