Medicaid Expansion

North Carolina’s Medicaid system is grappling with funding shortfalls, both from the state budget and from the Congressional megabill. The state Department of Health and Human Services says it will reduce provider reimbursement rates and cut coverage for popular weight-loss drugs on Oct. 1 after state lawmakers failed to approve additional funding.

Figures from the U.S. Census American Community Survey 1-year estimates show that North Carolina improved its health insurance and Medicaid coverage in 2024.

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis says the Senate’s current megabill would effectively end Medicaid expansion in North Carolina — and that’s the main reason he’s opposing the bill.

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

Gov. Roy Cooper is wrapping up his final weeks in office, and he made a farewell speech Wednesday in his home county.

As he prepares to leave office, Gov. Roy Cooper reflects on his signature policy achievement: Medicaid expansion.

Advanced practice nurses have been trying to gain more independence from physicians for decades, but the legislative obstacles are high.

More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in state's Medicaid expansion program in the seven months since it was launched.

Under a new federal rule, home health care providers in North Carolina will be required to put most of the money they receive from Medicaid toward workers’ wages.

Even as Medicaid expansion has provided more low-income adults and their children access to oral health care, many dentists are not accepting them as patients.