While insurance companies press for higher premiums from policyholders to cover liability, state insurance commissioners are fiercely negotiating with the companies to keep rates as low as possible to ...

As the State Health Plan board weighs premium hikes, some members already face higher out-of-pocket health care costs.

Other states can draw lessons from 2019 HCA deal, could give AGs more power to regulate sales, strengthen certificate-of-need laws, it notes.

North Carolina was the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Lambeth said lawmakers in some of the ...

Trump administration policy changes have been quick, but NC’s health care community say they’re paying attention & doubling ...

Insurers say they help lower patient costs by helping people avoid unnecessary or inappropriate health services.

Leader of a multiyear health impact study says work with neighbors of the fire site continues as does the environmental ...

North Carolina is launching a $20M pilot end law enforcement transportation of mental health patients being involuntarily committed.

It is a new approach to reentry, bringing resources directly to high-need areas to support more successful transitions to the ...

North Carolina’s summer nutrition programs provide free meals and snacks to youth, ages 18 and younger, who might otherwise go hungry.

The Asheville provider’s work did much to make people forgive if not forget. But some say the goodwill engendered by Mission Health is gone.

In 2022, North Carolina launched an experimental initiative to address the nonmedical health needs of low-income residents by using Medicaid dollars. This first-in-the-nation effort, known as the ...