MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSP. v. COMMR. OF PUB. WELFARE


347 Mass. 24 (1964)

196 N.E.2d 214

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL vs. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE (and three companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 6, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Lee Turner, Assistant Attorney General (James C. Doyle with him), for the respondent.

Albert G. Tierney, Jr., for the petitioner.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., CUTTER, KIRK, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

Four patients were furnished medical care during the year 1962 by the hospital under public medical care plans mentioned in the margin.1 In each case special nursing services were required for the patient's proper care. Payment to the hospital for the special nursing in each instance was denied by the board of public welfare in the community responsible for the patient. These denials...

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