The state auditor released a 661-page report showing 8,846 long-term vacancies across 46 state agencies, totaling $1.04 billion in lapsed salary.
The state treasurer and state employees association support a New Bern eye surgeon’s challenge of the state’s certificate-of-need health care restrictions.
North Carolina State Treasurer Brad Briner is among those not happy with Gov. Josh Stein’s $33.6 billion budget proposal for Fiscal Years’ 2025-2027.
Diabetic state employees soon won’t have to swallow the rising cost of insulin. State Treasurer Dale Folwell waived co-pays on insulin prescriptions for members of the State Health Plan, starting Jan. 1, 2021. Folwell hopes to save members $5 million. Insulin has become a flashpoint in the debate over drug pricing. The cost of the...
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review: Prison lawsuit: The N.C. NAACP, the ACLU of North Carolina, and the Disability Rights North Carolina, have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration, calling for...
During Sunshine Week — seven days highlighting the public’s right to know about what happens behind the government’s closed doors — much of North Carolina’s health care system remains in the shade. State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants to rescue the State Health Plan with price transparency. The plan is due to go broke in three...
State retirees and their dependents beginning next year won’t pay premiums on Medicare Advantage plans. The State Health Plan awarded Humana a new contract that will save taxpayers $590 million over three years. The savings will allow the State Health Plan to erase retirees’ monthly premiums for Medicare Advantage plans, State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced...
State employees are no longer in immediate danger of paying out-of-network costs for their health care, but they may confront higher premiums and higher taxes later. State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s Clear Pricing Project has folded, and its proposed reforms won’t touch hospitals. But the fiscal future of the State Health Plan is unclear. Without the...
Roughly a week after State Treasurer Dale Folwell sweetened the State Health Plan, major hospitals don’t seem tempted by the treasurer’s latest carrot. As negotiations devolve into a struggle of wills that resembles nothing so much as an escalating game of chicken, hospitals are eyeing the newest deadline skeptically. The State Health Plan is due...
As hospitals fight cost-cutting reforms to the State Health Plan, State Treasurer Dale Folwell remains undaunted. The treasurer’s fight to overhaul the state health plan has pitted state employees and taxpayers against the hospital industry. Folwell promises to save taxpayers $258 million and plan members almost $57 million by tethering payments to Medicare prices. That...
Senate Republicans are again pushing State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s request to limit risk in the underfunded state pension plan by narrowing the number of retirement options. The Repeal Risky Retirement Payments Act, as Senate Bill 374 is titled, divides Republicans against Democrats, and pits the N.C. Association of Educators against the State Employees Association of...
