News
Legislative leader urges halt to State Health Plan provider tiers
House Majority Leader Brenden Jones warns new State Health Plan tiers will raise rural patients’ costs and threaten local hospitals.
News
Senate advances bill limiting AI in healthcare billing
NC senators advanced a bill limiting AI in health care billing and insurance denials, citing concerns over upcoding and patient impacts.
News
11 NC hospitals warned by Trump administration on pricing transparency
Eleven North Carolina hospitals allegedly not in compliance with Trump's pricing transparency directives received either a warning or a request to take corrective action.
News
Companion bills to repeal CON laws filed in House and Senate
State lawmakers filed legislation last week to repeal North Carolina's Certificate of Need (CON) laws, taking aim at the healthcare regulatory regime that restricts the establishment or expansion of healthcare facilities and services in the state.
Opinion
Blanket pre-authorization would help reduce healthcare costs and frustrations
A practitioner could be issued a blanket pre-authorization from insurers if they exceed a certain threshold for historical authorizations, saving time and money.
Opinion
NC has America’s most expensive healthcare. Here’s how we fix that.
High healthcare costs are an added tax that impacts everything from hiring and wages, to retirement savings.Thankfully NC's divided government should be able to find bipartisan ways to lower healthcare costs.
News
Report: N.C. hospitals pocketed billions in COVID relief funds
A report released Wednesday by N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell shows how seven of the largest hospital systems in North Carolina profited from billions of COVID relief funds and Medicare payments. North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy analyzed the audited financial statements of the hospital systems and compiled the...
Opinion
What we learned from Colorado’s mistake on Medicaid expansion
One of the crueler aspects of Colorado’s Medicaid expansion is that it’s a case study for how expansion crowds out services for those who really need it.
Opinion
Hospital association/RTI study: Transforming sickness into economic health
A report paid for by the N.C. Hospital Association and prepared by the Research Triangle Institute has, from an economics perspective, a number of flaws. Its most outrageous implication, however, is that getting sick is good for the economy. According to a press release from the NCHA, the study concludes North Carolina’s “hospitals and health care systems boost...
Video
JLF’s Becki Gray assesses current state of federal health care reform debate
Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation senior vice president, discusses key issues driving the current federal health care reform debate. Gray offered these comments during the July 26, 2017, edition of Spectrum News’ “Capital Tonight.”
Podcast
Blue Cross’ N.C. Obamacare plans could see 23 percent price increase
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 734: North Carolina’s largest health insurer wants to raise rates by 23 percent for policies tied to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Katherine Restrepo, the John Locke Foundation’s director of health care policy, analyzes factors contributing to the rate increase. Restrepo also offers ideas about ways the state...
