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.
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.
State Treasurer Dale Folwell is once again sounding the alarm on some nonprofit hospitals in the state, with a new report that shows low-income patients are being billed when they were eligible for charity care. This comes on the heels of a similar report released in October by Folwell, who oversees the State Health Plan...
RALEIGH — WakeMed officials claim the state-owned UNC Health Care has used taxpayer money to expand its network of providers, particularly in profitable areas such as cardiac care, leaving the private, non-profit WakeMed to shoulder 80 percent of costs for treating uninsured patients in Wake County.
