A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling favoring the state in a legal dispute with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, Duke University Medical Center, WakeMed, Mission Hospitals, N.C. Baptist Hospital, and Moses Cone Health System. The issue is whether officials who run the state’s Medicaid program can compel the hospitals to seek Medicare funding for services that had been billed previously to Medicaid.?
In other rulings this morning:
- A unanimous panel affirmed a lower court ruling ordering Duplin County commissioners to appropriate $4.8 million for the county school system’s local current expense fund.
- A unanimous panel affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing the appeals of two Beaufort County high school students who challenged their long-term suspensions for fighting.
- A split panel voted 2-1 to reverse a lower court ruling in an environmental dispute involving a Yancey County country club. The majority decision sides with the group Clean Water for North Carolina in its challenge of Mountain Air Country Club’s plans for a nine-hole golf course that could potentially disturb “certified trout waters.”
- A unanimous panel reversed a lower court ruling and allowed NASCAR’s Bill Davis Racing to pursue a case against the N.C. Department of Revenue for state tax credits.??
- A unanimous panel upheld the N.C. Department of Transportation’s decision to fire a worker in the Division of Motor Vehicles. The former assistant district supervisor had contended her dismissal was “both racially discriminatory and retaliatory.”
You’ll find all of today’s rulings here.
