Connecticut Business & Industry Ass'n v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care

The plaintiffs filed thirty-two appeals from final decisions of the defendant commission on hospitals and health care (CHHC) issued on December 6, 1988, establishing the rates to be charged for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 1988, by the thirty-two hospitals named as additional defendants in the appeals. Upon motions by the defendants, the trial court dismissed the appeals for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, concluding that the plaintiffs lacked standing under General Statutes § 19a-158,1 which specifically authorizes appeals from CHHC decisions by “[ajny health care facility or…