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DHHS opposes plea for top NC court to define ‘substantial prejudice’ in CON cases

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is asking the state’s highest court to reject a Virginia-based health care provider’s appeal in a certificate-of-need dispute. The appeal asks for a legal definition of the term “substantial prejudice.”

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Top NC court asked to define ‘substantial prejudice’ in CON disputes

A Virginia-based health care provider is asking North Carolina’s highest court to clarify rules surrounding disputes over the Tar Heel State’s certificate-of-need law. A petition Monday asks the court to clarify the meaning of “substantial prejudice.”

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Full Appeals Court will not rehear northeastern NC CON case

The full 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals will not hold a rehearing in a certificate-of-need dispute involving a magnetic resonance imaging machine for northeastern North Carolina. Virginia-based Chesapeake Diagnostic Imaging Centers sought the rehearing after a three-judge appellate panel ruled against Chesapeake in July.

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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.

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