After SPIN! Video: Why won't the Legislature pass CON reforms?
Published September 10, 2018
After SPIN! "Question to Becki Gray and Brad Crone – Recently syndicated columnist George Will wrote a column about a Winston-Salem surgeon who runs a medical diagnostic imaging center but he cannot fully do so without an MRI machine. Our State’s certificate of Needs laws and our bureaucracy are preventing him from being able to do so. He says he can provide an MRI for $500 to $700 whereas North Carolinas hospitals charge an average of $2,000. There has been a lot of talk about CON reforms but our legislature won’t pass them. Why? What’s it going to take to ease the barriers for surgical and imaging procedures?"