Nonprofit health care provider UPMC has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reconsider its decision last month to strike down the statute of repose under the state’s MCARE health law, saying its analysis was “gravely flawed.”

The hospital system filed an application for reconsideration Wednesday in the case Yanakos v. UPMC, in which a sharply divided court said the statute of repose violates the Pennsylvania Constitution’s guarantee of open access to the courts.

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