When the state’s Medicaid program switched last July from a system where the state pays health care providers for individual patient services to a system where the state pays for-profit organizations to manage the program, some worried the transition might be a mess.

New Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley gave his first COVID-19 update to a legislative oversight committee on Tuesday.

There’s an entrepreneurial newcomer in the world of North Carolina health insurance for individuals and small groups.