State's highest court has chance to end CON game
North Carolina's highest court has a chance to strike down a significant barrier to health care reform.
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North Carolina's highest court has a chance to strike down a significant barrier to health care reform.
By Daryl James and Renee Flaherty
North Carolina regulators crossed a line in 1973 when they told a nonprofit hospital it could not build new facilities on its own land with its own money. A new law had given the regulators veto power, but the state Supreme Court intervened and declared the statute unconstitutional. The decision was not close. The justices
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
More than a year after a New Bern eye surgeon asked North Carolina’s highest court to take up his challenge of the state’s certificate-of-need law, the court has answered yes. An order issued Friday confirms that the North Carolina Supreme Court will hear Dr. Jay Singleton’s challenge to state CON restrictions. Singleton had appealed to the high court in August 2022.