Medicaid

Open enrollment is underway. Advocates urge beneficiaries to review their options carefully to avoid unexpected expenses or gaps in coverage.

North Carolina’s healthcare system faces mounting questions about access to affordable care, hospital consolidation and rising costs. The State Health Plan moved the largest hospital system out of network; Duke Health is expanding into the region and Medicaid changes have prompted concerns from state officials.

Major changes tied to immigration status and work requirements could affect hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians.

The legislation moved $319 million to the state's Medicaid program and also provided critical funding for the state's prison system, DMV and State Bureau of Investigation.

The bill provided stopgap funding for the state's Medicaid program but also started to implement changes required under federal legislation passed last year.

With Medicaid funding due to run out, NC lawmakers act quickly in new session. But some are concerned by the extra provisions in bill.

A Medicaid funding bill moving quickly through the North Carolina General Assembly with broad bipartisan support includes a provision raising concerns among advocates for immigrants.

A bipartisan trio of state senators are sponsoring a bill to help more children and adults on Medicaid get oral health care.

Gov. Josh Stein has been calling for an additional $319 million to fund Medicaid for months. Now, legislative Republicans are set to provide it.

Poll by a new bipartisan group finds that one in six North Carolinians have skipped care they needed because of cost.