A new report from State Treasurer Dale Folwell says hospitals are profiting from serving Medicare patients – the latest salvo from Folwell in his ongoing war on hospitals’ business model.

U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson celebrated a win for bipartisanship this week. While Hudson is in the minority party in Congress, he worked with several Democrats from other states to enact a key legislative priority for the N.C. Community Health Care Association, which has 43 member centers across the state.

N.C. Department of Health and Human Services officials said Tuesday that they didn’t have “legislative authority” to delay the scheduled launch of the next phase of the “Medicaid Transformation” program.

Here’s an additional wrinkle to the timing of the legislature’s (potential) decision to expand Medicaid.

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has seen its staff vacancy rate doubled since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The occasion for Monday’s gathering of top current and former elected officials was the renaming of the North Carolina Cancer Hospital at UNC Health in Chapel Hill to honor the late Senate leader Marc Basnight.

Negotiations over Medicaid expansion and related regulatory challenges aren’t close to finished just yet.

Senate leader Phil Berger on Tuesday reiterated his opposition to the N.C. Healthcare Association’s proposed compromise on Certificate of Need regulations.

After months of finger-pointing and little movement, are we finally getting close to a compromise on Medicaid expansion?

Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley told legislative leaders and hospital executives this week that “a failure to act in September” on Medicaid expansion “will have significant health and financial consequences.”

In a section of his new autobiography, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson highlights personal financial troubles that stemmed from losing a job at a furniture manufacturing facility in the wake of NAFTA in the 1990s.

Given the diversity of opinions on abortion, many candidates this year would rather talk about their opponents’ alleged “extreme” views than detail their own position on the issue.