It’s pretty messed up what North Carolina hospitals have to go through just to be able to own an MRI machine.
That’s what my colleague Kari Travis and I learned last week while sitting in a stuffy government building on the grounds of a former psychiatric hospital in Raleigh, listening to members of the State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) hash out Certificate of Need (CON) rules.
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