- WakeMed accuses rival Duke University Health of anti-competitive action in a certificate-of-need dispute involving equipment for radiation treatment of cancer patients.
- State regulators awarded WakeMed a CON for its first linear accelerator. Duke challenged the decision. An administrative law judge threw out WakeMed’s CON.
- WakeMed is asking the North Carolina Court of Appeals to reverse the ALJ’s decision. Duke asks appellate judges to award the disputed CON to Duke.
WakeMed accuses rival Duke University Health System of attempting to block competition in a new court filing linked to a certificate-of-need dispute. The two health care providers are battling for state permission to add new equipment for radiation cancer treatment in Wake County.
Neither provider can add the equipment without a government-mandated CON. The dispute has reached the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
“WakeMed has built a thriving cancer center with medical and surgical oncology services but cannot offer the full range of cancer treatment without a linear accelerator (LINAC) to provide radiation oncology,” WakeMed’s lawyers wrote Wednesday. “Duke already has four LINACs and approval for a fifth that should already have been in operation, but for repeated delays by Duke.”…