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Health Care Voter Guide – 2024 Election

Starting in August, NC Health News (the independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit, statewide news organization dedicated to covering health care in North Carolina) reached out to North Carolina’s statewide candidates and to all of North Carolina’s candidates for Congress asking them to answer a series of questions about health care issues: health care costs and transparency, opioids, […]

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CMS Approves North Carolina’s Medical Debt Relief Program

MONDAY, JULY 1, 2024 RALEIGH Millions of low- and middle- income North Carolinians are one step closer to medical debt relief. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved on Friday, July 26 Governor Roy Cooper and the NC Department of Health and Human Services’ plan to use the state’s Medicaid program to incentivize hospitals

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North Carolina unveils plan to incentivize hospital to forgive medical debt and beef up charity care

by Michelle Crouch and Charlotte Ledger, North Carolina Health News July 1, 2024 By Michelle Crouch In an initiative that appears to be the first of its kind nationwide, N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper and state health officials unveiled a plan today to boost federal payouts to hospitals that take specific steps to ease the burden

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2024 North Carolina Culture of Wellness Award Winners Announced by NCBCH

CHARLOTTE, N.C.- April 3, 2024–  Winners of the 3rd annual employer Culture of Wellbeing Award were announced by the North Carolina Business Coalition on Health (NCBCH) at the NCBCH Spring Forum in Greensboro.  The award recognizes the best employer wellbeing programs across the state; companies committed to improving the health and well-being of their employees. Employer

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National Alliance Hospital Fair Price Initiative

National Alliance Hospital Fair Price InitiativeSetting the Record Straight: The Urgency of Achieving Hospital Fair Price September 28, 2023, Charlotte, NC Momentum from the work of employers and other healthcare purchasers, coalitions, and policy makers at both the state and federal levels to make healthcare more transparent and affordable is growing. Efforts to achieve fair

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Employers: Register for a Summer Roundtable Lunch Near You!

Time is running out to register for our Employer Roundtable Lunches being held July 25th to August 3rd. Register now at NCBCH.net/events for a location near you. Lunches are scheduled for Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Hickory, Raliegh, and Wilmington.  These are a great opportunity to discuss current “hot” topics surrounding employer benefits, total rewards, health, and

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Race, Ethnicity, and Source of Payment Can Increase Patient Risk of Adverse Events in Hospitals

Washington, D.C. (June 7, 2023)—The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit advancing the highest standards for patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, today published a report examining the association between Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades and differences in rates of adverse safety events among white, Black, and Hispanic patients and among patients with commercial insurance and

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