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Legislative battle continues over how to address health care costs in North Carolina

NC Health News

The House bill also limits insurers ability to change prior authorization decisions after the care is provided and prevents insurers from requiring prior approval for a particular service if the provider was approved for that same service 80 percent of the time in the last year. Its unclear whether that actually happens.

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Homeless sweeps thwarting health care in California as medicine, ID lost

HEALTHBEAT

It comes as Newsom announced this month that his health secretary, Mark Ghaly, who has spearheaded the state’s infusion of social services for homeless people into the health care system, would be stepping down. Front-line providers here say the city has become a glaring example of homelessness policy gone wrong.