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What Piqued Readers’ Interest in 2025? Six Stories of Reckonings in NC’s Health Care System

North Carolina Awarded $213 Million for Rural Health Transformation Program

Support for Community-Based Organizations New to Medicaid

Policy Strategies for State Medicaid Agencies to Advance Community Health and Well-Being

NC Pitches $1 Billion Plan to Overhaul Rural Health System

The Future of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots and What it Means for Other Medicaid Programs Considering Social Needs Programs

NC Budget Stalemate Deepens Strain on Safety Nets, Health System, Advocates and Providers Say

Officials Urge Revival of Program Aiding Medicaid Members, Boosting Local Economy

NC’s Health Secretary Advocates Support for Pilot Health Initiative

June 11, 2025

NC Struggles in Key Child Health Measures, New Report Shows

June 11, 2025

A Question of “Worthiness”: GOP Pols and the People They’re Cutting off from Core Health Programs

June 10, 2025

Western NC Braces for End of Medicaid Program that Funded Food, Health Support

June 9, 2025

State Lawmakers Should Reconsider Plans to End Highly Successful Health Program

June 9, 2025

Hunger already an issue in post-Helene Western NC. Signs it could get much worse.

June 6, 2025

They ‘won’t get food’: Healthy Opportunities advocates press lawmakers to reconsider ending funding

June 5, 2025

Advocates for North Carolina public health program lobby lawmakers in Raleigh

June 5, 2025

Western NC braces for end of Medicaid program that funded food, health support

A pioneering Medicaid program that has delivered food, housing support, and transportation to nearly 30,000 low-income North Carolinians is set to end July 1. The

June 4, 2025

Funding for Medicaid pilot program addressing non-medical needs will end this month

June 4, 2025