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On April 1, 2023, approximately 55,000 children receiving NC Health Choice coverage will move to NC Medicaid and begin receiving additional physical and behavioral health services. This change will help save families money and increase access to care.
Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 @ 8:14 am
By: ENC NOW
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The recently adopted North Carolina state budget includes funds to give a one-time bonus to eligible home- and community-based direct care workers and support staff who provide services to Medicaid and NC Health Choice beneficiaries.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 6:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Slow school reopening, dropping enrollment, and union influence on health policy may mean new energy for the school choice movement
Published: Monday, May 10th, 2021 @ 2:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has sought authority from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to temporarily waive certain Medicaid and NC Health Choice policies as part of North Carolina’s response to the COVID-19.
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 @ 11:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A Louisiana law mandates proper health contingencies. Choicers are against it.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 @ 6:09 am
By: LifeZette
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President Trump campaigned in 2016 on repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and ushering in a new health care system that would provide more choices at lower costs for all Americans.
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 7:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Republicans believe in patient-centered health care that delivers the choices they want, the affordability and protections they need, and the quality they deserve. That is why Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and his colleagues today introduced the Protect Act
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2019 @ 6:24 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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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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Today, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced additional flexibilities to expand its efforts to ensure Medicaid and NC Health Choice services can be quickly delivered to those impacted by Hurricane Florence
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2018 @ 8:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services today asked health care providers, health plans and other stakeholders to provide information that will help the department transform the state Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs to managed care, as directed by the General Assembly in 2015
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2017 @ 5:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released a detailed proposed design for transforming the state Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs to managed care, as directed by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2015. DHHS is accepting comments on this proposal through Sept
Published: Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 @ 11:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is seeking additional public input on the transformation of the Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs (also known as "Medicaid reform")
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 @ 8:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services encourages adding healthy and smart lifestyle choices to New Year's resolutions for the coming year
Published: Monday, January 2nd, 2017 @ 7:00 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Students from the department of nutrition sciences are teaching at-risk youth the importance of healthy lifestyle choices as a partner in the Love A Sea Turtle (L.A.S.T.) program held at River Park North this summer.
Published: Tuesday, August 16th, 2016 @ 5:03 am
By: ECU News Services
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Because temperatures are reaching dangerous highs this time of year, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health is encouraging people with diabetes to take extra precaution to maintain healthy blood glucose levels.
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 9:11 pm
By: Chris Downey
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An innovative East Carolina University program is planting ideas - and vegetables - with some Pitt County Schools students.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 9:49 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Messages from Mom and Dad this week most likely will urge East Carolina University students to wrap up in winter coats, hats and gloves before venturing out in the cold.
Published: Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 @ 2:36 am
By: ECU News Services
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Removing outdated legal barriers to consumer health care choices could help corral rising Medicaid costs in North Carolina, reform advocates say.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 6:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lovers of socialized medicine are quick to point out that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have some form of universal government run, i.e., single payer, health care system. While this may be true, the US system of health care payment and delivery does...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medicaid takes a serious bite out of North Carolina's budget. Of the General Fund's $5 billion allocated to the Department of Health and Human Services, Medicaid devours a solid $3 billion. But if we step back and account for Medicaid's total cost - state and federal funds combined - tax...
Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 @ 11:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Building on positive reforms from the past few years, North Carolina's elected leaders can take more steps to help boost economic growth, improve education, and fight overregulation. The John Locke Foundation's new Agenda 2014 Policy Report offers more than 110 recommendations addressing these...
Published: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Effective January 1, due to new eligibility rules, 70,253 children were switched from NC Health Choice to Medicaid.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 7:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Perhaps you've seen the current TV ad with the woman lambasting Obamacare, saying the government is incapable of making healthcare choices for you and me.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 @ 3:37 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Despite the fact that North Carolina has rejected expanding Medicaid to some citizens - fewer than 500,000 - the state has not rejected the federal health law's Medicaid expansion in its entirety. North Carolina has, in fact, expanded its broken entitlement program.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2013 @ 6:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s most vulnerable Medicaid patients deserve a health care safety net that meets their needs and moves them from sickness to health.
Published: Monday, June 10th, 2013 @ 11:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I don't understand all the fuss about the proposed Buffet Rule. I think it should be the guiding principle for government at all levels.
Published: Monday, April 30th, 2012 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We in the Legislature have been busy overriding Beverly Perdue's vetoes. Yesterday we overrode her veto of SB 33, Medical Liability Reforms, SB 496, Medicaid and Health Choice Provider Requirements and SB 781, Regulatory Reform Act of 2011.
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2011 @ 10:36 am
By: Bill Cook
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Just a thought from the outside looking at this whole process of the take-over of the hospital: I wonder if it is rigged? Have you ever heard of The Hobson Choice?
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2010 @ 6:04 pm
By: Susan Sounding
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