NC's hospitals — and their networks of physician practices, clinics, urgent cares, and other facilities they own or manage — are at the center of many policy disputes.
Technological innovation in health care can be a double-edged sword, adding cost without making patients healthier or care safer. The concept of value seeks to balance the cost of technology with outcomes of its use.
Price transparency can revolutionize American health care into a functional, pro-consumer marketplace that resembles the rest of the economy.
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.
Both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly are pushing for healthcare reforms to provide price transparency and authorization efficiency for patients across the state.
We live and work in a mostly free economy — but a spate of year-end stories demonstrated a prominent exception. Triad Business Journal reported that Novant Health, based in Winston-Salem, sought permission to build a $249 million hospital in Asheville focused on cancer treatment. Its application was denied in favor of a rival proposal from...
North Carolina’s hospital sector has undergone lots of mergers and acquisitions over the past decade. Now the pace of change is, if anything, accelerating. Guilford County’s largest hospital, Cone Memorial, has just been acquired by a charitable arm of Kaiser Permanente. Novant Health, also based in the Triad, operates hospitals in Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Wilmington, and...
North Carolina’s hospitals are being called out in a new report that shows a wide range in hospital pricing, huge price markups from Medicare rates, and a lack of price transparency.
Nonprofit hospitals comprise a majority of the hospitals in the United States. These hospitals receive tax breaks and tax-free benefits at the expense of taxpayers, and in return, nonprofit hospitals are expected to provide charity care to help their communities. But the truth is most nonprofit hospitals do not provide enough charity care to receive...
It’s common nowadays to see nonprofit healthcare organizations congratulated blithely for “caring” more for patients than their for-profit counterparts. Nonprofits are exempted from paying state and local taxes because they presumably spend that money on charitable services. But as Carolina Journal reported in a recent news story, “a majority of the state’s hospitals are reaping the...
Certificate of Need laws have ruined governors and exiled the wealthy and the powerful to federal prison. Millions of dollars have changed hands, and more than a few political campaigns have been fueled by corruption in the CON system. CON laws are the reason hundreds of cardiac patients couldn’t get care in Maui, forcing doctors to fly critical patients to Honolulu....
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