On December 14, 2023, the North Carolina Attorney General (AG) filed suit against HCA Healthcare, Inc. alleging that HCA violated the Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) it signed when it acquired Mission Health System. HCA is the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States and in 2018, it acquired Mission Health System, which serves western North Carolina. At the time of the merger, the North Carolina AG required the signing of an APA that included assurances that HCA was committed to continuing certain critical services (including emergency, trauma care, and oncology services) at the [...]