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State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the State Health Plan Board of Trustees announced Wednesday that they have to reinstate coverage of “medically necessary services” — including hormone replacement therapy and surgeries — which the health plan had provided for a single year in 2017.
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A federal judge has ordered the North Carolina state employee health plan provide “medically necessary services" for transgender people linked to gender confirmation. U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs ruled Friday it was unlawfully biased for the State Health Plan to exclude coverage for such treatments.
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The Medicaid expansion bill includes significant changes to Certificate of Need (CON) regulations, which has already received strong pushback from the North Carolina Healthcare Association, a group that represents North Carolina hospitals.
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Months after a new health care price transparency rule went into effect, some North Carolina hospitals failed to show full compliance. Now, nearly a full year under the new rule, leaders from those hospitals say they are fully following the policy, but regulators have not publicly released information to show these hospitals are indeed in good standing.
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Tucked in the new state budget is an expansion of services for families of children with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities. More than 28,000 families in the state qualify for state funding for in-home care like speech or behavioral therapies.
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The growing role of private equity in U.S. health care is generating a lot of debate and raising a big question: Is the priority patient care or making money?
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Daily COVID-19 hospitalizations have surged past 3,500, a figure not seen in North Carolina since January.
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There will be no COVID baby boom in the United States. In fact, a decrease in childbirth is expected, with existential fear prevailing over hormones and…
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Updated at 6:55 p.m.More than three-and-a-half years into his presidency and 40 days from an election, President Donald Trump on Thursday launched what…