Medicaid transformation has become expensive. More than a thousand jobs and a massive reform are at stake now that the budget stalemate has thrown Medicaid transformation into chaos. Managed care companies hired about 1,200 people to manage the health care of 1.6 million Medicaid patients, but each company is now losing $3 million to $5...
For two meetings and a few signatures, Stephenie Brinson pays $24,000 to stay in business each year. As a nurse practitioner in North Carolina, Brinson must have a supervising physician whose scope of practice encompasses her duties. If she loses the supervising physician, she has 30 days to find a new one, or she must...
State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s proposed cost-cutting reforms for the State Health Plan have drawn praise from state employees’ representatives and a nationally recognized free-market health finance expert. But medical providers aren’t too happy with the treasurer’s plans. The State Health Plan has a $3.3 billion annual budget, though costs exceed state appropriations. It is only...
Dr. Gajendra Singh wants to help patients get an MRI scan for a fraction of the price hospitals and big health care networks charge. But state regulators and powerful lobbying allies restrain him. On Monday, July 30, Singh joined with the Institute for Justice to file a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court seeking to...
