Legal Opinion
Massachusetts General Hospital v. Rate Setting Commission
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 12, 1977PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The plaintiff Massachusetts General Hospital (hospital) sought a declaration that a certain “information bulletin” of the defendant Rate Setting Commission (commission), purporting to elucidate one of the commission’s regulations, was in fact itself a “regulation,” and invalid for failure of the commission to afford notice and hearing prior to promulgation, as required for the effective adoption of an agency regulation by the State Administrative Procedure Act, G. L. c. 30A, §§2-3. 2 A judge of the Superior Court entered judgment for the defendants declaring that the information bulletin had…
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