
    ALBEMARLE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, Petitioner, and N.C. COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAMS, INC., Petitioner-Intervenor v. N.C. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DIVISION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, Respondent
    No. 441A03
    (Filed 6 February 2004)
    Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 159 N.C. App. 66, 582 S.E.2d 651 (2003), affirming a judgment entered 24 January 2002 by Judge Stafford Bullock in Superior Court, Wake County. Heard in the Supreme Court 10 December 2003.
    
      The Twiford Law Firm, by John S. Morrison, for petitionerappellee; and Poyner & Spruill LLP, by Steven Mansfield Shaber, Thomas R. West, and Pamela A. Scott, for petitionerintervenor-appellee.
    
    
      Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Grady L. Balentine, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for respondent-appellant.
    
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.  