BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER v. BLUE CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS


382 Mass. 485 (1981)

416 N.E.2d 1352

BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER & others vs. BLUE CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis D. Dibble, Jr., for the plaintiffs.

Jeffrey Swope for the defendant.

Joan Stoddard, Assistant Attorney General, was present but did not argue.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

By their complaint the plaintiffs, four general acute care hospitals, seek a declaration as to the rate of reimbursement to be paid to them by the Medical West Community Health Plan (Medical West), a health maintenance organization (HMO)2 operated and controlled by Blue Cross. G.L.c. 231A. Blue Cross filed an answer admitting an actual controversy existed, and it filed a counterclaim...

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