A health system in Louisiana is planning to charge its employees a fee who have unvaccinated spouses on its health insurance plan.
Published: Friday, October 29th, 2021 @ 6:46 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the state’s five Medicaid prepaid health plans have joined NCCARE360 — the nation’s first statewide coordinated care network connecting individuals to local services and resources.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Starting July 1, nearly 1.6 million Medicaid beneficiaries in North Carolina will begin receiving the same Medicaid services in a new way through NC Medicaid Managed Care health plans.
Published: Wednesday, July 14th, 2021 @ 9:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced all Medicaid beneficiaries currently eligible to transition to managed care have selected or been assigned a health plan with 97% enrolled in a plan that includes their current primary care provider (PCP) in network.
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 7:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers are fighting to help small businesses afford health insurance, but they’re running out of time.
Published: Monday, December 21st, 2020 @ 3:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Time is running out for North Carolina’s State Health Plan.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 @ 12:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Diabetic state employees soon won’t have to swallow the rising cost of insulin.
Published: Sunday, September 20th, 2020 @ 11:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Greensboro-based Cone Health and Norfolk, VA-based Sentara Healthcare on Wednesday announced plans to merge the two hospital systems.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2020 @ 3:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina teachers and other state employees won’t pay out-of-pocket for coronavirus treatments through June 1.
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2020 @ 6:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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During Sunshine Week — seven days highlighting the public’s right to know about what happens behind the government’s closed doors — much of North Carolina’s health care system remains in the shade.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 9:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Small businesses will be able to band together to slash the costs of their health insurance after Gov. Roy Cooper let Senate Bill 86 become law.
Published: Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 @ 7:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State employees are no longer in immediate danger of paying out-of-network costs for their health care, but they may confront higher premiums and higher taxes later.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 1:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Treasurer Dale Fowell has sweetened a deal for hospitals to sign on to his Clear Pricing Project.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 8:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As hospitals fight cost-cutting reforms to the State Health Plan, State Treasurer Dale Folwell remains undaunted.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 @ 5:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Fresh off N.C. Department of Insurance approval of cost-reducing reforms, Treasurer Dale Folwell is optimistic doctors and hospitals will join a new State Health Plan provider network.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 @ 11:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Texas did it in 1985. California did it in 1987. Pennsylvania did it in 1996. New Hampshire did it in 2016. Florida did it in 2019.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 12:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state House passed a bill Wednesday, April 3, limiting State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s plans to make the State Health Plan more solvent. But the bill may not get a hearing in the Senate, letting Folwell move forward.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2019 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Folwell is locked in a heated battle with state hospitals, health systems, doctors, and legislative supporters of House Bill 184, which is slated for a House floor vote Wednesday, April 3.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 3:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A plan by State Treasurer Dale Folwell to reform the nearly insolvent State Health Plan faces legislative pushback, prodded by hospitals and large medical providers.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 8:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The House Health Committee overwhelmingly approved a bill blocking State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s controversial State Health Plan reforms while moving up a deadline to study alternatives.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2019 @ 3:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The "anti-Folwell" bill, HB184 made it out of the Health Committee yesterday, putting it on a course to possibly become law. It is a bill that 2 sides see very differently.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2019 @ 4:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Tomorrow morning (Tuesday), legislators in the House Health Committee will vote on HB184 - a bad bill that will cost taxpayers and State Health Plan members more than $1 million per day if it's enacted.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 @ 8:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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State taxpayers would save hundreds of millions of dollars in health insurance costs, thanks to a unanimous ruling Tuesday from the N.C. Court of Appeals
Published: Friday, March 8th, 2019 @ 8:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's time to give American families quality, reliable, affordable healthcare - and that's what we are working very hard to do.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 3:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stand Up for ENC, the movement sparked by the State Treasurer's proposed cuts to State Health Plan reimbursements, continues to generate awareness and gain momentum
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 4:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hospital lobbyists persuaded lawmakers to draft legislation blocking N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell's cost-cutting reforms to the State Health Plan, Carolina Journal has learned
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 11:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants the U.S. Department of Justice to require all North Carolina hospitals to be transparent in their pricing and recover excessive charges hospitals made to the State Health Plan
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 2:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell's proposed cost-cutting reforms for the State Health Plan have drawn praise from state employees' representatives and a nationally recognized free-market health finance expert
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 8:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An angry teacher on Facebook wondered why those in charge of the State Health Plan “felt the need…to remind us that we are funded by taxpayers” on the new insurance ID cards
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 5:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell is making good on a pledge from his 2016 election campaign to cut costs and boost transparency in the State Health Plan
Published: Friday, October 12th, 2018 @ 1:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Monday, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of North Carolina announced it is requesting a decrease in rates for plans on the North Carolina Obamacare Exchange
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2018 @ 3:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell administers the State Health Plan, the largest in our state
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2018 @ 11:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell says the State Health Plan is paying UNC Health Care too much for member services and treatments
Published: Monday, September 10th, 2018 @ 10:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued a Request For Proposal (RFP) for organizations wishing to participate in Medicaid managed care as Prepaid Health Plans (PHPs) when the program launches in 2019
Published: Saturday, August 11th, 2018 @ 12:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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