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.
North Carolina's certificate of need sets up a competition for government favors instead of a competition for customers' business.
Asheville’s Mission Hospital will soon have a new competitor in Western North Carolina. That’s good news: when a single hospital system dominates a market, that rarely works to the advantage of patients, employers, or physicians. The bad news here, however, is that it was a state agency that chose which hospital network will build the...
Rather than consider Medicaid expansion during the lame duck session, Republican leadership in North Carolina has decided to take up the issue in the new General Assembly next year. Their best option in 2023 would be to reject the expansion while adopting two other reforms that were in this year’s house bill. A bill introduced...
Rather than consider Medicaid expansion during the lame duck session, Republican leadership in North Carolina has decided to take up the issue in the new General Assembly next year. Their best option in 2023 would be to reject the expansion while adopting two other reforms that were in this year’s house bill. A bill introduced this session proposed both...
This piece was co-written with Cynthia Fisher. [Editor’s note: This opinion piece was originally published at Forbes.com and is reprinted with permission] Jason Dean from Tennessee needed stitches on his knee after a minor accident last year. He went to a local hospital that told him insurance would cover the procedure. Weeks later, he received a $6,500...
Instead of duking it out for customers, two regional health care giants will vie for a government permission slip.
Hospital lobbyists persuaded lawmakers to draft legislation blocking N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell’s cost-cutting reforms to the State Health Plan, Carolina Journal has learned. Rep. Josh Dobson, R-McDowell, co-chairman of the House Health Committee, is working on a bill to preserve the current payment structure for hospitals and doctors until Dec. 31, 2021. A study committee...
Don’t like the price or quality of the services available from the state-approved hospital or hospitals in your area? That’s too bad.
Rather like Bulgarian shoe companies and Romanian food processors once had to do, North Carolina’s hospitals have to submit their ideas to government officials for approval.
The optimal size, shape, and management of hospital systems ought to be sorted out through market competition, not government policy.
