The bill includes substantial incentives for states to expand Medicaid, as well as provide spending boosts to improve care for new moms, people with disabilities. But only if lawmakers in Raleigh say yes.
Rose Hoban
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What’s the Deal with Phil Berger’s COVID-19 Study?
A Wake Forest Baptist study aims to track who’s infected or not, but it’s only part of the broader picture as NC figures out its next steps.
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Coronavirus Today: Here’s What Happened on Thursday, March 12
As more patients were diagnosed with the novel virus, local, state and federal actors began making difficult decisions.
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N.C.’s Medicaid director quits health and human services department
Carol Steckel, the state’s Medicaid director, is planning to leave after eight months on the job. Her resignation is the latest in a string of other high-profile departures from the Department of Health and Human Services, which has been plagued of late by difficult personnel issues. Multiple phone calls to DHHS Monday were not returned, […]
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Perdue chooses one health-exchange plan; McCrory could choose another
As deadlines pass for states to tell the federal government their plans for implementing the Affordable Care Act (known as Obamacare), questions remain about how the law will eventually look in North Carolina. In the wake of the election, the most immediate question was what choice the state would make for running a health benefits […]