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.

Mental health providers are hard to find in North Carolina’s rural communities, and even at a statewide level, health care leaders are saying mental health troubles constitute a “state of emergency.”

Recent controversy over some tax-exempt N.C. hospitals billing patients who are eligible for charity care would be 80% resolved if state lawmakers passed Medicaid expansion, N.C. Sen. Dan Blue told a Charlotte business group Friday.

If you tuned into Friday’s inaugural meeting of the legislature’s study committee on Medicaid expansion hoping for a spirited debate on whether North Carolina should take the plunge, you probably left disappointed.

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.