Medicaid

Critics of the federal proposal to impose a work requirement on Medicaid recipients warn that red tape — not unemployment — would drive people off the rolls.

The Asheville-based manufacturing company is partnering with NC Medicaid through United Healthcare to provide lactation services over the phone or laptop.

The latest numbers show 656,000 North Carolinians have gained coverage through Medicaid since it expanded in 2023.

The North Carolina House of Representatives approved a budget plan on May 22 for the next two fiscal years that would cut some vacant positions in the health department, loosen child care regulations and eliminate Medicaid coverage of GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic, for weight loss.

A push in Congress to limit provider taxes could strip billions in Medicaid funding from North Carolina.

For residents of rural North Carolina, quality health care can seem nonexistent. Let alone affordable. Now, one of the only options for low-cost, low-barrier medical care is under threat: community health centers.

Hundreds of advocates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities visited the North Carolina legislature this week to lobby lawmakers to provide more funding for a program that has a years-long waiting list.

North Carolina might expand an experimental initiative to address the nonmedical health needs of low-income residents by using Medicaid dollars.

The state health department asked for $458 billion to keep up with rising Medicaid costs.

Kody Kinsley, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, says people who could benefit the most from GLP-1s can't get them because of the cost.