The state has given WakeMed preliminary approval to build a new hospital in Garner and a new mental health hospital in Knightdale. The state also approved adding beds to both Duke Raleigh and UNC Rex hospitals.
Jim Bostian, Aetna’s market president for North Carolina, addressed the State Health Plan
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is going to court to challenge the recent decision to move a major State Health Plan contract from Blue Cross to Aetna. A Blue Cross news release argues the plan and state taxpayers “will pay more” and “get less.”
The N.C. Supreme Court’s decision in a pending medical malpractice case could help or hinder efforts to boost health care access in North Carolina. The John Locke Foundation makes that argument in a new friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday.
A new report released by North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell Wednesday shows that CEOs across North Carolina’s nine largest hospital systems doubled their paychecks in less than five years, half the time than previously thought.
A recently released report by a nonprofit organization says it’s a mixed bag when it comes to North Carolina hospitals complying with a federal price transparency law put in place two years ago.
On Thursday, the North Carolina Senate will vote on Senate Bill 20, the "Safe Surrender Infants" bill, which aims to expand the state's newborn safe surrender law. The bill, sponsored by Senator Jim Burgin, R-Lee, cleared the Rules and Operations Committee on Wednesday after being approved by the Health Care and Judiciary Committees.
The North Carolina State Health Plan and State Treasurer Dale Folwell released documents from the Plan’s Request for Proposal process to change its third-party administrator from North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Shield to Aetna at a media event Tuesday.
A vote for Senate Bill 48 could end ongoing legal disputes about a regulation that stifles health care competition.
A unanimous federal Appeals Court panel has upheld a lower court’s ruling favoring WakeMed in a dispute with car crash victims. Appellate judges ruled that the hospital did not deceive patients when asking them to sign certain forms in exchange for treatment.
Russian hackers were allegedly behind a cyberattack that took down 14 hospital systems websites across the country Monday, including Duke University Hospital in Durham.
