Pennsylvania Dental Ass'n v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge McGinley,

Pennsylvania Dental Association (PDA) appeals a decision of the Pennsylvania Insurance Department (Department) which denied PDAs Petition to Intervene in a statutory comment procedure under . Section 6329(b) of the Professional Health Service Plan Corporations Act (Act), 40 Pa. C. S. §6329(b). We affirm.

On July 13, 1987, the Medical Service Association of Pennsylvania, d/b/a Pennsylvania Blue Shield (Blue Shield) submitted Filing No. 7-W-1987 to the Department requesting the Department’s approval of a two percent (2%) increase to dentists under Blue Shield’s dental…