Hope-A Women's Cancer Center, P.A. v. North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services

BEASLEY, Judge.

Hope-A Women’s Cancer Center, PA. (Hope) appeals from a judgment, affirming a declaratory ruling by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Service Regulation (DHHS). DHHS denied Hope’s request for a declaratory ruling that its “entry into the Services Agreement described in [its] request and its provision of diagnostic and radiation oncology services to its patients by means of that Services Agreement (the ‘project’ 1 )” would not constitute a “new institutional health service” as defined in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 131E-176(16),” but instead…