On May 29, 1978, the plaintiff increased its charges to private patients by 7% for the purpose of absorbing a 5.7% general wage increase which it had implemented in March, 1978. On July 24, 1978, the Governor signed into law, effective immediately, an amendment to section 2807 (subd 2, par [i]) of the Public Health Law, which provides: "For the period to and including December thirty-first nineteen hundred and seventy-eight, a general hospital shall not increase any charges...
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