Latest court CON dispute focuses on MRI for northeastern NC

North Carolina’s second-highest court could decide whether state regulators made the wrong choice when they allowed one health care provider to maintain a monopoly on MRI machines serving northeastern North Carolina. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that pits Virginia-based Chesapeake Diagnostic Imaging Centers against Sentara Advanced Imaging Solutions and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.