The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday waded into the dispute between health insurance company Highmark and health care network the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center over whether the consent decrees the health care giants have been operating under can be extended indefinitely, or if the agreements will have to end abruptly at their June 30 expiration date.

The debate, which took place for about an hour at the high court’s oral argument session in Harrisburg, focused on the language of the agreement’s modification provision, and whether the state attorney general’s duty to safeguard the public interest allowed the state to push for significant modifications to the agreement.