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.

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.