Lewis, Rice & Fingersh attorney, Neal F. Perryman, successfully defended against a physician's challenge to a private hospital's decision to permanently revoke the physician's medical staff privileges. On June 9, 2009, in a reported decision, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District in Egan v. St. Anthony's Medical Center, 2009 WL 1586524, held that St. Anthony's Medical Center substantially complied with its medical staff bylaws before revoking Dr. Robert C. Egan's staff privileges. The "substantial compliance" standard, and adoption of a physician's right of action for limited judicial review of medical staffing decisions, was first adopted by the Missouri Supreme Court in February 2008 in an earlier appeal in the Egan case, 244 S.W.3d 169. Mr. Perryman also represented St. Anthony's before the Missouri Supreme Court.
In the June 10, 2009 edition of the St. Louis Daily Record, Mr. Perryman is quoted saying: "It's significant that the Court of Appeals has now put some parameters on what substantial compliance means." This decision is believed to be the first to interpret the Missouri Supreme Court's "substantial compliance" standard.
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