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NC Health News
APRIL 18, 2025
By Grace Vitaglione and Rose Hoban The North Carolina Senates proposed budget for the next two fiscal years is packed with policy around new health care initiatives, including repealing North Carolinas hospital capacity regulation laws, trimming vacant state job openings and increasing rates for child care subsidies.
NC Health News
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger Atrium Health received a $45 million sales tax refund from North Carolina in 2023 and 2024, hitting a statutory limit allowed by the state for nonprofits, tax records reviewed by The Charlotte Ledger/NC Health News show. And that may not even be the full amount.
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NC Health News
APRIL 15, 2025
But the law that expanded North Carolinas Medicaid program contains a trigger law that says if the funding match from the federal government decreases , North Carolinas Medicaid expansion program automatically ends. However, most of the Medicaid expansion population works already in low-wage jobs where health insurance is not offered.
NC Health News
APRIL 22, 2025
Key Republican senators are pushing changes that would shift the board selection power to legislators, the governor and state labor commissioner, contending the new process will make the dental board more accountable to the public. Election vs. selection Republican state Sens. That was the gist of the argument 10 years ago when the U.S.
KFF Health News
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
NC Health News
DECEMBER 31, 2024
As we look back on the year that was, some of the most-read NC Health News stories included articles about Helenes effects, from its upheaval of municipal water systems to the use of cadaver dogs and other issues that arose during the aftermath of the havoc generated by the storm. Now their board will be reconfigured.
NC Health News
JANUARY 2, 2025
Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.
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