Hospital & Healthsystem Ass'n v. Commonwealth

OPINION BY

Judge BUTLER.

The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, Geisinger Health System, St. Vincent Health Center, Abing-ton Memorial Hospital, and the Pennsylvania Medical Society, on behalf of itself and all of its members (Petitioners) filed an application for summary relief. The Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association (POMA) filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of Petitioners’ application. For the reasons that follow, we grant Petitioners’ application for summary relief.

This case arises from a dispute over funds appropriated pursuant to the Medical Care…