Commonwealth v. Brown

OPINION BY

LALLY-GREEN, J.:

¶ 1 Appellant, Gregory Ricky Brown, appeals from the judgment of sentence entered on January 23, 2006, as made final by a restitution order entered on May 16, 2006. We granted en banc review to determine whether Medicare is entitled to restitution under 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 1106. The trial court ruled that Medicare was entitled to restitution. We agree and therefore affirm.

¶ 2 The procedural history of the case is as follows. On January 23, 2006, Appellant pled guilty to one count of simple assault against Scott Rissell. On that date, the trial court imposed a sentence of…