CHARLOTTE (AP) A group of anesthesiologists is suing a North Carolina hospital system after losing a contract. Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants this week sued Atrium Health, formerly Carolinas HealthCare System. The lawsuit accuses Atrium and a new vendor of stealing Southeast’s ...

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Norton v. Scotland Memorial Hospital, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-374-16, 17 pp.) (John Tyson, J.) Appealed from Scotland County Superior Court (Richard Brown, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Plaintiffs did not need to satisfy N.C. R. Civ. P. 9(j) in order ...

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A total of 50 hospitals in the rural U.S. have closed since 2010, and the pace has been accelerating, with more closures in the past two years than in the previous 10 years combined, according to the National Rural Health ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Two newspapers report that North Carolina hospitals have sharply reduced the practice of suing patients who don’t pay their bills. The analysis by the The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer of Raleigh shows that from ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Charities, hospitals and insurers that spent months promoting subsidized private health insurance in North Carolina are taking credit for the big enrollment results on a federal marketplace. The Obama administration said this week almost 360,000 people enrolled ...

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Apparently the phrase “Okay, fine, you caught me” is not in hospitals’ vocabulary.

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Haywood Emergency Physicians had been providing emergency room services to Haywood Regional Medical Center pursuant to a series of contracts since 1991. The contract that was the subject of this arbitration was signed in 2002 and was to expire in ...

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Experts say wariness of medical-malpractice claims and a discomfort that arises from occupations with different bodies of training has historically led physicians and attorneys to operate on separate playing fields. "There's been a mutual suspicion of the other profession," said Dr. Stephen Kramer (pictured), professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. "They're both highly traditional and learned professions, and you'd think they'd have a lot in common, but the mindset is very different.

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Discovery Requests - Hospital - Documents - G.S. Sect. 131E-95(b) Privilege - Medical-Review Committee - No Affidavits

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