Two former University of Washington medical residents say the Washington Physicians Health Program, or WPHP, was supposed to help them – but did the opposite. Instead, they say the program hurt their financial and mental health and set their careers back.

WPHP is a nonprofit organization and a contractor of the Washington State Department of Health. The lawsuit does not name University of Washington as a plaintiff, and a spokesperson for UW said they “are unable to comment on it.”

The plaintiffs allege they were misdiagnosed and actually received a medical report that belonged to another patient entirely, but WPHP would not clear them to return to work, according to the lawsuit.

Neither plaintiff currently practices medicine in Washington state.

The Washington Physicians Health Program is asking the court to throw out the lawsuit.

State law says programs like WPHP, known as “physician health and voluntary substance use disorder monitoring programs,” are “immune from civil liability” and cannot be sued. (They can be criminally charged, though.)