Medicaid expansion had great potential to affect community health centers (CHCs), particularly in rural areas, because their patients are predominantly low income and disproportionately uninsured.

The program, which is the first of its kind in the nation, uses Medicaid dollars to address ... Currently, the program is implemented in 33 of North Carolina’s 100 counties, but DHHS also ...

Park said he is worried that once the strategy is off the table, states will have to cut their Medicaid spending to balance their budgets. Jay Ludlam, deputy secretary for North Carolina Medicaid ...

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 ...

If a bill passed by House Republicans early Thursday morning becomes law, more than 260,000 people in North Carolina are expected to lose Medicaid coverage, according to KFF, a national nonprofit ...

That’s the reason California Gov. Gavin Newsom on May 14 proposed eliminating Medicaid coverage of GLP-1s for weight loss starting Jan. 1, to save an estimated $680 million a year by 2028. And the ...

“We have to start talking about this budget as a form of social ... we have already seen. In North Carolina, for instance, when North Carolina refused to expand Medicaid, there’s a lady ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Surveyors from the North Carolina Department of Health ... the survey on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), NCDHHS officials told News ...

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, both Republicans in vulnerable seats in 2026, told The Hill this week they have reservations, even if they’re broadly open to Medicaid ...

North Carolina health officials are warning that one of the many proposals being floated in Congress to shrink a key Medicaid funding mechanism could devastate hospitals and nursing homes across ...

Jay Ludlam, deputy secretary for NC Medicaid at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, spoke with The News & Observer on Tuesday about the potential impacts. Republicans in ...