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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

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

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

The Medicaid Program That Saved Money, Turned People's Health Around-and Got Killed

Mother Earth Closed Amid Medicaid Crisis. A Local Farm is Bringing it Back

The Medicaid Program That Saved Money, Turned People's Health Around-and Got Killed

Hope is not lost for HOP: Haywood County urges state to revive crucial funding

NC Struggles in Key Child Health Measures, New Report Shows

June 13, 2025

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

June 13, 2025

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

June 13, 2025

State Lawmakers Should Reconsider Plans to End Highly Successful Health Program

June 12, 2025

Episode 11: Inside Healthy Opportunities: Voices from the Pilot, Questions for the Budget

June 12, 2025

Equal Plates Project Feeding Asheville Residents Post-Helene, Funding Cuts Loom

June 9, 2025

Hunger Already an Issue in Post-Helene Western NC. Signs it Could Get Much Worse.

June 9, 2025

N.C. Legislature to Cut Funding for Healthy Opportunities Pilots

June 9, 2025

Healthy Opportunities: Worth the Investment? Episode 10 from the WNC Health Policy Initiative Podcast

June 9, 2025

Opinion: A Healthier NC Hangs in the Balance Without Continued State and Federal Funding

An opinion by Laurie Stradley, DrPH, CEO, for Impact Health In 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services granted the state of North Carolina

June 6, 2025