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Study by Duke University School of Law researchers and the North Carolina Office of State Treasurer finds that North Carolina's hospitals obtained legal judgments, including interest charges, from patients with medical debt
Published: Friday, September 29th, 2023 @ 11:23 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Folwell said the consolidation of healthcare has resulted in lower quality, lower access, and higher cost.
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 7:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The report states that North Carolina is among the most consolidated and least affordable for healthcare, but its hospitals were three times more profitable than the national average in 2019.
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2023 @ 8:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Groundbreaking Report Concludes Nonprofit Hospitals Paid Top Executives Over $1.75 Billion in the Past Decade, Doubling CEO Compensation Faster than Previously Thought
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 11:00 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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N.C. Treasurer Folwell Applauds Ruling
Published: Sunday, September 25th, 2022 @ 1:26 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced a major milestone in its innovative Healthy Opportunities Pilot program with 10 people who are members of managed care successfully receiving a food service delivered through NC Medicaid Managed Care.
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2022 @ 12:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Unions and their Democrat supporters have eyed North Carolina’s strong economy and manufacturing industry for years, but lately the heat has been turning up amid COVID business lockdowns, labor shortages, and a looming 2022 election.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 6:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Study Shows North Carolina Hospitals Limit Patients Access to Prices, Refuse to Abandon Secret Contracts and Hidden Prices Contrary to Attorney General's Recent Report
Published: Monday, February 14th, 2022 @ 2:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell is raising concerns about hospitals’ compliance with federal price transparency laws. Folwell highlights new research that “directly counters” competing claims about price transparency from Attorney General Josh Stein.
Published: Sunday, February 13th, 2022 @ 10:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A group of residents from western North Carolina filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 10, against HCA Healthcare and Mission Health alleging the anti-competitive business practices have driven medical prices up and the quality of health care down in that part of the state.
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 @ 5:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen visited a vaccine clinic at Mission Health / Asheville-Buncombe Technical Conference Center (A-B Tech) to see people receive their vaccine.
Published: Monday, April 26th, 2021 @ 8:30 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Unions won a new stronghold in North Carolina. Patients will pay the price, experts say.
Published: Monday, September 21st, 2020 @ 4:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “will be the most pro-union president since [Franklin Roosevelt],” Jill Biden said of her husband Monday during a teleconference sponsored by a nurses’ union.
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2020 @ 2:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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About a dozen protesters stood in the rain on an Asheville sidewalk at Mission Health on Friday, Aug. 21. Some held umbrellas or “Vote No” signs.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2020 @ 7:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina is home to one of the biggest union battles in the South.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2020 @ 10:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In February 2019, after months of negotiation, Western North Carolina’s Mission Hospital was sold to HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital company.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2020 @ 6:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In some non-COVID related health news, the New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) is moving forward with its proposed research and clinical partnership with Novant Health and UNC Health.
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2020 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper encourages everyone to get a test for COVID-19, especially people who attended mass gatherings or protests.
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020 @ 12:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced North Carolina boards and commissions appointments.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2020 @ 7:44 am
By: Governor's Office
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Hospitals have called the treasurer’s bluff. The deadline for hospital signups onto the State Health Plan expired Monday, yet the plan remains bereft of major hospital networks.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 5:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Volatility in financial markets related to President Trump's imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs has N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell's attention
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Patients deserve better access to both life-saving and life-preserving health-care treatments
Published: Saturday, June 17th, 2017 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is receiving public comments through April 18, 2016, on the draft N.C. Medicaid reform waiver application
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2016 @ 3:27 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Much happened in the final hours of the N.C. General Assembly's latest session: some good, some bad, and altogether too much in general for those interested in good government to rest easy. The process used had a worrisome lack of openness and transparency.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 6:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much happened in the final hours of the General Assembly session, some good, some bad, and altogether too much in general for those interested in good government to rest easy. The process used had a worrisome lack of openness and transparency.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 4:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments
Published: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 @ 9:51 pm
By: Chris Downey
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After Congress repealed in 1987 the federal mandate that states maintain a certificate-of-need program for health services, which had failed spectacularly to contain costs, 14 states opted to end their CON programs. North Carolina chose to remain a CON state.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory Addresses Public Health Workers, Announces Appointments to Public Health CommissionThe Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced appointments to the North Carolina State Commission for Public Health after the governor addressed the State Health Director's 2014 conference meeting in Raleigh.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 11:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 8:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos, M.D., joined leaders of East Carolina University in Greenville today to announce the details of a statewide telepsychiatry plan.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 12:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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