Posts tagged Health Care
How North Carolina’s New Budget Might Accidentally Break the State Retirement Plan

North Carolina’s budget for the next two fiscal years, H.B. 259 makes changes to UNC Health and ECU Health policies which received little reporting at the time of the bill’s passage but have since caused a legal crisis at the State Treasury and strong allegations of fiduciary misconduct. 

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How Doctor Billing Malpractice Paralyzes Medicaid Expansion in N.C.

“In 2014, NC state auditors discovered that a surprising amount of NC doctors whose licenses have been revoked seeing Medicaid patients. Nearly seven years later, another audit revealed the same: North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) failed to properly verify credentials, which resulted in improper Medicaid payments. Because of improper Medicaid spending and the state’s failure to expand Medicaid, Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) subsidies are inaccessible to many North Carolinians, as subsidies from the Bill rely on the expansion of Medicaid within states.”

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