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Just when we were beginning to trust that North Carolina's Medicaid program was better managed and actually spending within its allocated budget we learned the program hasn't been paying doctors and hospitals what they are owed.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 3:29 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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A withering state audit uncovered a pattern of abuses by a division director at the Department of Health and Human Services, unearthing $1.6 million in excessive salaries and wages, rampant nepotism, failure to follow state policies, and continuing lax oversight at the agency.
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2015 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week Gov. Pat McCrory released his budget proposal for the 2015-2017 biennium, his spending plan for $22 billion in each of the next two fiscal years. While there are some positive spending decisions in this budget, there are also some discouraging choices in certain areas of government...
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2015 @ 2:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Our budget commits more than $10.8 billion in Department of Health and Human Services funding over the biennium, or more than 24 percent of the General Fund annually, to support the well-being of our most vulnerable citizens...
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 6:27 am
By: Chris Downey
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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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A massive government overhaul of our health care delivery system continues to unfold, and the nation is embarking upon uncharted territory. Providers are fed up with reduced payments, spending more time wading through convoluted third-party paperwork, and not being reimbursed in a timely fashion...
Published: Wednesday, October 29th, 2014 @ 9:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week marks the first annual Healthcare Solutions Week - where public policy think tanks nationwide are raising awareness about how market-based principles can reduce health care costs while increasing quality and accessibility of care.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 10:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Secretary of Health and Human Services Aldona Wos has been crisscrossing the state with an optimistic message that she is preparing to recommend Medicaid expansion for North Carolina to Gov. Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, October 19th, 2014 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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NCTracks will achieve its first service anniversary on July 1 as the single system for processing claims and payments for Medicaid and other N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) programs.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 7:32 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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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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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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When lawmakers return to Raleigh on Wednesday for the "short session" they will face their own high-stakes math text, one that could prove troublesome as they face budget numbers that don't add up.
Published: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 @ 12:31 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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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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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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Legislative Democrats took a few jabs at state Auditor Beth Wood, a fellow Democrat, at a Tuesday meeting of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services.
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2013 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Before Obamacare, before individual mandates, before exchanges, there was Medicaid. Started in 1965 under President Johnson as part of his War on Poverty, Medicaid extended health insurance coverage to low-income Americans.
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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