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DENTAL BENEFIT PROVIDERS, INC. v. EISEMAN

No. 48 EAP 2014, No. 49 EAP 2014, No. 50 EAP 2014

124 A.3d 1214 (2015)

DENTAL BENEFIT PROVIDERS, INC. and UnitedHealthcare of Pennsylvania, Inc. d/b/a UnitedHealthcare Community Plan and HealthAmerica Pennsylvania, Inc., d/b/a CoventryCares, Appellees, v. James EISEMAN, Jr., and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Appellants. Aetna Better Health Inc., Health Partners of Philadelphia, Inc., Keystone Mercy Health Plan, and DentaQuest, LLC, Appellees, v. James Eiseman, Jr., and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Appellants. Department of Public Welfare, Appellee, v. James Eiseman, Jr., and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 27, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin David Geffen, Esq. , Philadelphia, for James Eiseman, Jr., and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia.

Eric L. Cramer, Esq. , Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, Nicholas Urban, Esq. , for Daniel Polsky, Amicus Curiae.

Melissa Bevan Melewsky, Esq. , Harrisburg, Pennsylania NewsMedia Association, for PA NewsMedia Association and PA Freedom of Information Coalition, Amicus Curiae.

Daniel Boyd Huyett, Esq. , Neil Coleman Schur, Esq. , Stevens & Lee, P.C., Philadelphia, for the Pennsylvania Coalition of Medical Assistance Managed Care Organizations, Amicus Curiae.

Jeffrey L. Poston, Esq. , Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., for America's Health Insurance Plans.

Karl Stewart Myers, Esq. , Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for HealthAmerica Pennsylvania, Inc., UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, CoventryCares, Dental Benefit Providers, Inc., and UnitedHealthcare of Pennsylvania, Inc.

James J. Rodgers, Esq. , Dilworth Paxson, LLP, Philadelphia, for Health Partners of Philadelphia, Inc., Keystone Mercy Health Plan, DentaQuest, LLC.

Leonard Whitney Crumb, Esq. , PA Department of Public Welfare, for Department of Public Welfare.

SAYLOR, C.J., EAKIN, BAER, TODD, STEVENS, JJ.

OPINION

This is the second of companion sets of appeals in which we are asked to evaluate the breadth of the public's statutory right of access to discrete information about the implementation of the Medical Assistance Program.

The general background for these appeals is set forth in this Court's opinion...

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