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• affirming district court’s conclusion that HCQIA prohibits direct competitors from being hearing officers, and not from participating in other phases of peer review process
• “The definition of 'professional review action’ encompasses decisions or recommendations by peer review bodies that directly curtail a physician’s clinical privileges....”
• an expert opinion that a physician's care was adequate does not rebut the statutory presumption
• first holding that plaintiff had failed to state a claim for attempted monopolization, and then concluding that plaintiff had also failed to allege an antitrust injury
• physician’s allegations that some review members were competitors was insufficient to rebut presumption that actions met standard for immunity from suit
• physician afforded adequate notice and hearing procedures where he was provided notice and allowed to respond at each step of his peer review process, and where he received a hearing before Board implemented its proposal to restrict clinical privileges

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).