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Attorney General requests an extension of controversial UPMC-Highmark agreement

by Penny Tucker
June 24, 2022
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The lawyer preferred’s office has asked the kingdom Supreme Court to quickly extend the soon-to-expire agreement among Pittsburgh fitness care rivals Highmark and UPMC, announcing it’d be impossible to settle the long-simmering dispute earlier than June 30.

Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s submitting on Wednesday said there isn’t sufficient time for the Commonwealth Court to consider the office’s efforts to change the 2014 settlement, which allows lots of Highmark health insurance participants to be dealt with by using UPMC medical doctors and hospitals at in-community fees. The consent decrees expire on June 30.

UPMC has no longer replied to Shapiro’s submission and declined to remark for this tale.

The pass, basically made to earn Shapiro’s office greater time to overhaul the consent decrees, came the equal day a decision within the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed a UPMC lawsuit that challenged Shapiro’s authority to regulate the consent decrees.

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“To permit UPMC to attain victory by way of putting off at the rate of masses of heaps of vulnerable Pennsylvanians could, in effect, violate the Commonwealth’s proper to have its petition to adjust heard in any respect,” Shapiro stated within the court docket submitting.

The legal professional widespread reiterated that the 2014 consent decrees between the fitness care competitors incorporate an “amendment provision” that permits absolutely everyone to regulate the consent decree if it’s miles in the public’s interest.

“There is not anything sacrosanct approximately the stop date of the consent decree,” he stated in the submitting.

Shapiro stated that a Commonwealth Court’s April three choice that ruled the consent decrees cannot be modified or prolonged indefinitely became a mistake and has appealed to the country Supreme Court.

Arguments at the appeal are scheduled for May sixteen in Harrisburg.

“Even with the court’s expedited briefing and argument timetable, it would be impossible for the Commonwealth Court to proceed to a very last judgment on deserves (earlier than June 30),” Shapiro stated in the quick.

Therefore, the lawyer widespread asked the kingdom Supreme Court to increase the quit date of the consent decrees “till the courts have reached a very last, unappealable selection on its petition for change.”

Shapiro has argued that thousands of Highmark medical insurance members could suffer financially and medically if they lose access to UPMC medical doctors and hospitals.

Among different needs, Shapiro asked in a Feb. 7 legal petition that UPMC hospitals and medical doctors accept Highmark patients “in perpetuity” and drop an arguable prepay rule.

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