Mission Hospitals, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services

STEPHENS, Judge.

The present matter was before this Court on a prior appeal from a Final Agency Decision (“the first FAD”) entered 7 August 2006 by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS” or “the Agency”). The pertinent factual background of this matter up to the time of that appeal is set out in our opinion in Mission Hospitals, Inc. v. N.C. Dep’t of Health and Human Services, 189 N.C. App. 263, 658 S.E.2d 277 (2008) (‘Mission i”). 1 However, to aid understanding of the current appeal, we find it useful to set forth the factual background and procedural history…