COMMONWEALTH BY SHAPIRO v. UPMC

No. 39 MAP 2019.

208 A.3d 898 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, BY Josh SHAPIRO, Attorney General; Pennsylvania Department of Insurance, by Jessica K. Altman, Insurance Commissioner and Pennsylvania Department of Health, by Rachel Levine, Secretary of Health v. UPMC, a Nonprofit Corp.; UPE, a/k/a Highmark Health, a Nonprofit Corp. and Highmark, Inc., a Nonprofit Corp. Appeal of: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by Josh Shapiro, Attorney General.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: May 28, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude Joseph Hafner II, Esq. , Ronald N. Jumper Jr., Esq. , Pennsylvania State Senate, Lee Ann Hagenbarth-Murray, Esq. , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Tara Lynn Hazelwood, Esq. , Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Matthew S. Salkowski, Esq. , for House and Senate Democratic Caucuses, Amicus Curiae.

Joseph Stephen Betsko, Esq. , John Bartley Delone, Esq. , James A. Donahue III, Esq. , Michael Timothy Foerster, Esq. , Neil Mara, Esq. , Keli Marie Neary, Esq. , Mark A. Pacella, Esq. , Joshua D. Shapiro, Esq. , Jennifer Ann Thomson, Esq. , Heather Jeanne Vance-Rittman, Esq. , Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Jonathan Scott Goldman, Esq. , Tracy Wright Wertz, Esq. , for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Shapiro, Appellants.

Anderson Thornton Bailey, Esq. , Kimberly A. Brown, Esq. , Leon F. DeJulius Jr., Esq. , S. Rebekah Byers Kcehowski, Esq. , Paul Michael Pohl, Esq. , Jones Day, Jared Dimock Bayer, Esq. , Stephen A. Cozen, Esq. , Andrew David Linz, Esq. , Stephen Aaron Miller, Esq. , Thomas Michael O'Rourke, Esq. , Cozen O'Connor, W. Thomas McGough Jr., Esq. , UPMC, for UPMC, Appellee.

Daniel I. Booker, Esq. , Conor Michael Shaffer, Esq. , Kim M. Watterson, Esq. , Jeffrey Michael Weimer, Esq. , Reed Smith LLP, Douglas E. Cameron, Esq. , Thomas L. Van Kirk, Esq. , Highmark Health, for Highmark, Inc., Highmark Health, UPE, Appellees.

Amy Joseph Coles, Esq. , Kevin Michael Eddy, Esq. , Blank Rome LLP, for Department of Insurance, Department of Health, Appellees.

Amy Griffith Daubert, Esq. , Pennsylvania Department of Insurance, for Department of Insurance, Appellee.

Mary Abbegael Giunta, Esq. , Office of General Counsel, for Department of Insurance, Department of Health, Levine, Rachel, Appellees.

Kenneth Lawson Joel, Esq. , for Department of Insurance, Department of Health, Altman, Jessica K., Levine, Rachel, Appellees.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.


OPINION

Before this Court is the latest manifestation of a longstanding dispute between UPMC; UPE, a/k/a Highmark Health and Highmark, Inc. (collectively, "Highmark"); and the Commonwealth's Office of the Attorney General ("OAG") regarding the parties' rights...

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