The following issues have been resolved over the last month, at least through June 30, 2019, which is the expiration date of the Consent Decrees entered into with the approval of the Commonwealth Court by the parties in June of 2014. Continuity of Care. An arbitration award, a copy of which is attached, provides as … Continue Reading
PBGH just recently sent out a client alert regarding UPMC/Highmark Continuity of Care Settlement as follows: UPMC and Highmark have announced a settlement agreement that addresses the Consent Decrees’ Continuity of Care provision. This settlement will govern continuity of care beginning January 1, 2016 until the end of the Consent Decrees on June 30, 2019. … Continue Reading
The ruling by Judge Ward of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas highlights another facet of the ongoing dispute between UPMC and Highmark. On February 18, 2015, Judge Ward of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas ruled that the arbitration agreements contained in the various agreements between Highmark and UPMC hospitals, most of … Continue Reading
Mike Cassidy was published in the July 2014 edition of the Allegheny County Medical Society Legal Bulletin regarding Highmark and UPMC Consent Decree. You can read the article, here.… Continue Reading
An agreement between Highmark and UPMC is expected to be announced at 12:30 p.m. today by Gov. Tom Corbett’s office today, sources have told the Post-Gazette. Details of the agreement were not immediately known and none of the parties involved would comment this morning. Legislators and others said today that a three-year pact, until … Continue Reading
On October 12, 2011, U.S. District Magistrate Cathy Bissoon of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued an Opinion denying Highmark’s request for a preliminary injunction against UPMC, which injunction sought to restrain UPMC from publically discussing and stating that patients’ health care coverage could end as early as June … Continue Reading
A federal judge has conditionally certified a class of potentially 85,000 current and former employees of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in a Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit challenging UPMC’s meal break policy. Conditional certification means that plaintiffs will be able to notify all current and former non-exempt employees from the past three years … Continue Reading
West Penn Allegheny accuses UPMC, Highmark of Conspiracy The West Penn Allegheny Health System has sued UPMC and Highmark in U.S. District Court, charging the region’s leading hospital system and health insurer with antitrust violations that have illegally raised prices for consumers in the region.… Continue Reading
