St. John's General Hospital v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

St. John’s General Hospital (St. John’s) appeals here from an order of the Hearing and Appeals Unit of the Department of Public Welfare which denied the claims of St. John’s for reimbursement from the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) for costs which St. John’s alleges to have incurred pursuant to DPW’s inpatient hospital care program.

Between October of 1971 and January of 1972, St. John’s provided inpatient hospital care to 46 heroin addicts, all of whom were hospitalized for periods of from four to seven days each, and were treated with methadone to supplant their…