NC Health News

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Though HCA made improvements to the western North Carolina health care system, according to the Wake Forest University report, many were already planned or required by then-Attorney General Josh Stein as part of the terms of the sale. [I]t by Andrew R.

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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.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press When was the last time you knew the full cost of a medical procedure before going under? Hospital price transparency has been enforced by the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services since 2021, but whether the law is functioning as intended is a topic of heated debate.

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NC Health News

MARCH 23, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural womens health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals cant afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities cant afford for them to stop.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2

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NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies, but that isnt the full picture. Even so, they cant afford to lose too much money, or their ability to provide other services could suffer.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 9, 2025

The Greene County Health System, with only three doctors, has no intensive care unit or surgical services. High-speed broadband is the new backbone of America’s health care system, which depends on electronic health records, high-tech wireless equipment, and telehealth access. “I feel better,” Walker said.

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