CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSP. v. TALFORD

No. 379A11.

727 S.E.2d 866 (2012)

The CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTHORITY v. Robert M. TALFORD.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 14, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McIntosh Law Firm, P.C., Davidson, by Prosser D. Carnegie , James C. Fuller , and Robert G. McIntosh , for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert M. Talford, pro se, defendant-appellee.

Ott Cone & Redpath, P.A., Greensboro, by Thomas E. Cone , and Brandon W. Leebrick , for Duke University Medical Center, Mission Hospitals, Inc., Moses H. Cone, Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, and WakeMed Medical Center; and Linwood Jones, General Counsel, for North Carolina Hospital Association, amici curiae.


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...

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