North Carolina’s medical debt initiative, announced in 2024, has delivered more relief than initially expected in a state ...

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 ...

Updated policies by hospitals and creation of the Medical Debt Relief Program by the former governor has led to 2. 5 million ...

On Monday, Gov. Josh Stein and North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Dev Sangvai announced more than $6.5 billion in medical debt has been forgiven in the past year.

Stein in a letter last week urged House and Senate lawmakers to pass a budget — which was supposed to be enacted at the end of June — but said that in the absence of a comprehensive plan, funding for ...

Mark from North Carolina is 65 — but he’s not retiring any time soon because he’s made “absolutely horrible decisions with money all my life.” He told The Ramsey Show that his wife has about $10,000 ...

Senate and House propose separate Medicaid bills amid funding shortfall. Key split: Senate funds pediatric and rural health programs; House excludes them. Both bills cut positions, reduce mental ...

Stacey Knoll thought the court summons she received was a scam. She didn’t remember getting any medical bills from Montrose Regional Health, a nonprofit hospital, after a 2020 emergency room visit. So ...

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for a record 87 hours in 2025 so far. This is up from just 2.5 hours in 2021 and 64 ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. The House and Senate are still at odds over funding for North Carolina’s Medicaid program, with provider rate cuts set to take effect ...

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Under the announced plan, nearly all Medicaid providers will face rate reductions of 3 percent to 8 percent, while some ...