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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.
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State Health Plan OKs premium hikes, preferred providers
On Friday, the North Carolina State Plan Board of Trustees (SHP) voted on what are being called monumental changes to the Plan over the next few years, including preferred provider hospital systems, benefit changes, and premiums for 2027, and the announcement of a Third Party Administrator (TPA) and Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) for 2028, in an effort to make improvements and reduce overall costs for the nearly 750,000 members covered by the Plan.
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State Health Plan expands no-cost surgeries through Novant deal
Hundreds of thousands of North Carolina State Health Plan (NCSHP) members across the state will soon have access to no-cost, high-quality surgical care.
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CON regulators reject new Wake County beds, new hospital
State regulators have approved an additional 267 hospital beds for hospitals in Wake County, far below the 644 that were requested. They also rejected a request to build a new hospital.
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NCDHHS regulators reject requests for three new hospitals, beds, and OR’s under CON law
State regulators have approved an additional 70 hospital beds and four operating rooms for hospitals in Wake County, a far cry from the 246 hospital beds and 13 operating rooms that were requested. Some of those beds and rooms were also included in requests for three new hospitals which were also rejected.
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Federal Appeals Court officially ends FTC fight with Novant over Iredell hospitals
A two-sentence court order Wednesday officially ended the Federal Trade Commission’s legal battle against Novant Health over the purchase of two Iredell County hospitals. Novant dropped its proposed $320 million purchase in June after the FTC secured an injunction against the deal.
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Feds seek official end to case pitting FTC against Novant Health
The Federal Trade Commission is asking a federal Appeals Court to throw out a case that pitted government regulators against Novant Health over acquisition of two Iredell County hospitals. Novant dropped its $320 million plan to buy the hospitals after appellate judges blocked the deal in June.
Opinion
We need more hospital competition
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...
Opinion
Court ruling exposes downside of corporate diversity targets
A standout employee at Novant Health lost his job because of the company's embrace of questionable diversity goals.
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Appeals Court rules fired white Novant Health executive can collect back pay
A white male executive fired from Novant Health in North Carolina in a diversity-related corporate shakeup in 2018 can collect back pay, based on a ruling Tuesday from a federal Appeals Court. But David Duvall cannot collect punitive damages. A jury initially awarded him $10 million.
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Report: NC hospitals rank third in the nation for patient safety
A national report card on hospital patient safety has ranked North Carolina in third place among hospitals in the U.S. that had mostly “A” ratings when it comes to patient safety, up from sixth place this past spring.
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NC comes in 7th place for hospital price transparency according to study
In its fifth semi-annual report examining hospitals’ compliance with the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule, PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA) found that. North Carolina came in 7th place in the U.S. for hospital price transparency.
