Amsterdam City Hospital v. Gemmiti

This is a proceeding to compel respondent, as Commissioner of Public Welfare of Saratoga County, to accept hospital charges of one Harriet K. Mann, an allegedly medically indigent person and to make them a public charge against the welfare district of Saratoga County.

*68Respondent has moved to dismiss the petition on the grounds that petitioner failed to obtain and failed to allege that the hospital had obtained prior authorization from respondent’s predecessor in office; that no application for public assistance in the form of hospital care was ever made to respondent’s predecessor in office by…