Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority v. Talford

NEWBY, Justice.

In this action to collect payment for the provision of medical services we must ascertain whether the trial court properly entered summary judgment for plaintiff. To do so, we must first determine whether a medical services provider forecasts sufficient evidence of its right to payment when it submits only affidavits from its employees that state the amount of its bill and assert the amount is reasonable. Second, we must decide whether a patient’s affidavit that illustrates the differences between the retail price of, and, the amount charged by the medical center for, certain…