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The N.C. Court of Appeals last week shot down a Certificate of Need lawsuit from a dialysis provider upset that the Department of Health and Human Services sided with its competitor.

Legislators on the study committee considering Medicaid expansion spent nearly four hours Tuesday hearing about a completely different piece of health care legislation.

In his presentation to lawmakers last week, Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority CEO Casey Cooper provided a history lesson on the federal government’s legal obligations to provide health care to American Indian communities. He pointed out that in more than 22 treaties between 1778 and 1871, the U.S. government agreed to...

As I mentioned in yesterday’s newsletter, N.C. Republicans have voiced interest in states like Montana that have a workforce development component to their Medicaid expansion programs.

Montana might be the most interesting parallel for North Carolina. That’s the state that House Speaker Tim Moore mentioned when I interviewed him last week about prospects for Medicaid expansion here (we discussed other topics too – look for more of his comments later this week).

The state’s newest nursing home for military veterans is behind schedule due to supply chain problems, but it’s set to open this spring.

The Governor’s Crime Commission heard success stories Thursday about the use of medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, in county jails to treat inmates with substance abuse issues.

N.C. Commissioner of Labor Josh Dobson announced Wednesday that he’s ending an emergency declaration that required COVID-19 safety standards for health care workers.