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The acting state controller wants the N.C. Supreme Court to reject a forced money transfer of $785 million for education-related purposes.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 12:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Senate passes Medicaid Expansion Bill 44-2 on Wednesday. H.B. 149 also includes the SAVE Act, which would address needs in rural areas and giving nurses more independence, and partial repeal of some Certificate of Need Laws
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 1:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday the N.C. General Assembly’s Senate leadership announced a health care proposal that includes Medicaid expansion under the federal entitlement program, the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It has been over eight months since Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the General Assembly’s biennium state budget.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2020 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Money is tight at N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2020 @ 8:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina continues to roll out Medicaid managed care, despite a lack of funding from the legislature and a lawsuit pending against one of the insurers slotted to become a managed care organization.
Published: Monday, October 21st, 2019 @ 7:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina has received federal approval to transition to a cost-saving, whole-health Medicaid managed care system that will take the state out of the day-to-day management of the government insurance program for the elderly, disabled, and poor
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2018 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The leaders of the General Assembly have sent a letter to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services opposing the governor’s plan to expand Medicaid
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2017 @ 12:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Following is part of an article series sent by incumbent Governor McCrory following Gubernatorial Debate on October 18 with Roy Cooper
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 5:06 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The Following is part of an article series sent by incumbent Governor McCrory following Gubernatorial Debate on October 11 with Roy Cooper
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 @ 1:59 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Now that the NC Department of Health and Human Services has submitted detailed plans for the Medicaid reforms passed last year we are able to get a clearer picture how reform is to be implemented. Our analysis leaves us with more questions than answers
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2016 @ 5:26 am
By: Tom Campbell
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State Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) voted today in support of the final bipartisan state budget compromise with the House of Representatives and Governor Pat McCrory
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2016 @ 8:44 am
By: Bill Cook
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The Department of Health and Human Services reported today that the North Carolina Medicaid program ended the 2014-15 state fiscal year with $130.7 million cash on hand. This is the second consecutive year the Medicaid program has finished with cash on hand.
Published: Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 @ 9:42 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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For the second straight fiscal year, the North Carolina Medicaid program ended the year with cash on hand.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 8:24 am
By: Christopher Maye
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For years now, legislators, policy analysts, medical providers, and lobbyists for various interest groups have been arguing about North Carolina's Medicaid program. Whether you find this argument interesting, confusing, or boring, I have some news for you: it's far from over.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos, MD, announced today that Robin Gary Cummings, MD, Deputy Secretary for Health Services and Medicaid Director, will step down from his position to accept the role of Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at...
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 11:45 am
By: Chris Downey
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Now that the North Carolina General Assembly has convened its 2015 session, let's look at what legislators have done over the last four years to improve our public schools and consider what they still have to do.
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The thoroughgoing reforms in Medicaid outlined 18 months ago by Gov. Pat McCrory are no closer to fruition now than they were when the governor introduced his Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina in April 2013
Published: Monday, December 15th, 2014 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If North Carolina doesn't reform its Medicaid delivery system, costs of the government insurance program for the poor and disabled will grow faster than new state revenue, says state Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell.
Published: Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 @ 1:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If he's not careful, Gov. Pat McCrory may be on course to have a "Pence problem" in 2015. In the days immediately following the mid-term elections, Gov. Pat McCrory insisted that - in spite of his party maintaining strong supermajority status in both houses of the General Assembly...
Published: Sunday, November 30th, 2014 @ 4:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For those of us who follow state government, the budget is always a topic of conversation. Where will money be spent? How much will be spent on various agencies? Will there be a surplus or deficit? The list goes on and on, but one question that doesn't come up very often is: How is the budget...
Published: Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 @ 8:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those of us who follow state government, the budget is always a topic of conversation. Where will the money be spent? How much will be spent on the various agencies? Will there be a surplus or a deficit? The list goes on and on, but one question that doesn't come up very often is, how is...
Published: Friday, November 14th, 2014 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Margaret "Mardy" Peal submitted her resignation yesterday to pursue an opportunity in the private sector that will allow her to spend more time with her family.
Published: Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 @ 7:46 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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For fiscal year 2014-15, North Carolina's General Fund budget rose 2.2 percent to $21.1 billion.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Converting the federal portion of North Carolina's Medicaid program into an annual block grant would go a long way toward limiting Medicaid's unpredictable annual cost overruns.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 11:40 am
By: John Richard Furlough
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Converting the federal portion of North Carolina's Medicaid program into an annual block grant would go a long way toward limiting Medicaid's unpredictable annual cost overruns.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 5:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With $2 billion in cost overruns the past four years, Medicaid continues to be North Carolina’s most volatile political conundrum, and now unanswered questions about its spending and growth threaten to delay passage of 2014-15 state budget adjustments before next Monday’s deadline.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Jerry Tillman says getting accurate Medicaid budget numbers is like trying to nail Jell-O© to a tree. His statement, both accurate and amusing, doesn't reflect this week's entertainment in Raleigh.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 6:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am a primary care physician with over 20 years experience delivering care in the Army and to North Carolina's Medicaid population, and currently run a pediatric clinic in Burlington.
Published: Sunday, April 27th, 2014 @ 10:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Accountable care organizations that are the cornerstone of the state's Medicaid reform plan are "HMOs on steroids," one national expert says, and they face certain opposition in the state Senate.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 1:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) today presented its Medicaid reform plan to the General Assembly.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 2:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Skeptics of the Medicaid reform plan announced in February by the McCrory administration are wary of using a relatively untested framework of what are known as accountable care organizations to administer and deliver Medicaid services.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Politicians don't get to choose the crises they face while in office but they can choose how they will react to them. Their responses often determine both their tenure in office and how history judges them.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Bill Moyers - for many years an advocate on television for liberal causes - recently gave North Carolina a lesson in how to disguise bias and distortions as news, and we should pay attention to how he did it.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 11:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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