March to Medicaid Managed Care Switch Looking Rocky
No one said it would be easy to move 1.6 million Medicaid recipients away from the existing fee-for-service system that’s…
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Why North Carolina Might be the Most Innovative Health Care State in America
Two top Obamacare officials spent years in their Washington offices, right next door for a time, thinking about how to…
Infant Deaths Decline for the First Time in Three Years in Forsyth County
A significant decline in the number African American infant deaths in 2018 contributed to Forsyth County having a lower overall…
Business Leaders, Conservatives Across State Warm to Medicaid Expansion
In private, and increasingly in public, some are making their support for House Bill 655, which would allow for Medicaid…
Laura Gerald and Susan Fitzgibbon Shumaker: Medicaid Expansion Would Be a Lifesaver and Job Creator
North Carolina is facing alarming health challenges. The opioid epidemic is still raging. Steep racial disparities are driving unacceptable differences…
Dr. Laura Gerald Featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s “Leaders of Color Speak Out”
“A failure to embrace difference. One of the major problems facing us as a field is that we have not…
New Report Says 634,000 More North Carolinians Would Get Health-care Coverage Under Medicaid Expansion
According to the report, done by George Washington University researchers, if Medicaid were expanded as early as November 2019, 464,000…
Medicaid Expansion Projected to Bring Jobs to Every NC County, and Not Just in Health Care
As Gov. Roy Cooper duels with Republican legislators over the state budget and health care, a new study released Wednesday…