Daily Archives: February 19, 2014

The Commonwealth Court ruled that records containing rates paid by the Department of Public Welfare to managed care organizations were subject to disclosure under the Right to Know Law, as they were financial records to which the full list of RTKL exceptions do not apply.
However, the court ruled that records containing rates paid by the MCOs to its subcontractors were protected by the confidential proprietary information and trade secret exception of the RTKL.

The Commonwealth Court ruled that records of rates paid by managed care organization subcontractors to dental service providers were not records of the Department of Public Welfare nor were they available to the DPW through third-party contracts. As a result, the records were not subject to disclosure under the Right to Know Law.