North Carolina Business Coalition on Health

In NC attorney general suit against HCA Healthcare, judge dismisses counterclaims

December 10 from Asheville Citizen Times‘ Jacob Boba:

In a Dec. 6 ruling, a North Carolina Business Court judge dismissed counterclaims HCA Healthcare filed in response to N.C. Attorney Josh Stein’s lawsuit against the Nashville-based for-profit health system.

Stein, North Carolina’s incoming governor, sued HCA in December 2023 alleging HCA breached the terms of its 2019 acquisition of Mission Health by not continuing to provide the level of emergency and trauma care, and oncology services, set forth in an amended asset purchase agreement. HCA purchased the then-nonprofit health system for $1.5 billion.

Read more at the Asheville Citizen Times: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2024/12/10/in-nc-attorney-general-lawsuit-judge-dismisses-hcas-counterclaims/76863286007/