A Durham woman is going to federal prison for bilking the Medicaid system out of more than $900,000, U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon announced on Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Louise Flanagan sentenced Tamara Perry McCaffity, 57, to 46 months in prison…
The Program Evaluation Division has a compiled and released a comprehensive report that looks at how North Carolina regulates and controls liquor sales and offers ways and legislative options toward changing and modernizing the process. The thoughtful 59-page report, “Changing how North Carolina Controls…
State lawmakers expressed concern Tuesday the long-awaited transformation of the state Medicaid system to a managed care format might have missed the mark in a fundamental area. During a House Health Committee meeting, Senior Chairman Greg Murphy, R-Pitt, told N.C. Health…
Candidates are already lining up for the 2020 elections in North Carolina. It’s not unusual to see candidates jump into a race a year before the election. But some might be throwing their hats into the ring even earlier than normal. That’s because primary elections have been moved up from…
Before he became a household name in one of the most significant Supreme Court victories for public employees’ First Amendment rights in decades, Mark Janus was warned by his worried mother about taking on powerful union forces. “Oh, Mark, you know what they did to Jimmy…
The governor’s behind it, and state Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen is for it. Some freshmen legislators have made it a priority, some leaders in the N.C. House think it’s a good idea, and 32 states have implemented a version of it. But does Medicaid expansion…
More foreign-born doctors educated in the U.S. are seeking visa waivers to practice medicine in North Carolina. But health care professionals say federal rules must be changed to help plug physician gaps in medically underserved areas of the state. That was among topics discussed Friday at…
The state panel that determines how much money North Carolina can prudently borrow over the next 10 years rejected an appeal Wednesday by Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget director to triple the state’s debt ceiling from $2.03 billion to more than $6 billion. The 6-3 vote of…
No one knows for sure, really, when the current session of the N.C. legislature will end. But Lee Lilley, Gov. Roy Cooper’s director of legislative affairs, did offer this: “The session ends when we get Medicaid expansion.” Lilley took the question during the…
Jordan Roberts, John Locke Foundation health care policy analyst, discusses the latest proposal to expand North Carolina’s Medicaid program. Roberts offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
