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Section 1115 Waiver Watch: Early Signs Point to New Directions Under Trump Administration

Food for Thought: A Vision for Generative 'Food is Medicine'

Impact Health - When a network forms a safety new Hurricane Helene Grantee Spotlight

Program Spotlight: Healthy Opportunities Pilot (HOP)

Now What? Making the Most of the Child Opportunity Index

Successful Health Program Pilot Should Awaken Elected Leaders to a Simple and Powerful Truth

NC Health Program Praised as Administrators Seek Legislators' Help to Expand

NCDHHS: New Data Shows Black Infants are Dying at Rates Three Times Higher Than White Infants

NC Healthy Opportunities Program Helped Reduce Medicaid Costs

Medicaid Spending and Health-Related Social Needs in the North Carolina Healthy Opportunities Pilots Program

Successful Rural County Health Program Could Go Statewide—if Politics Don't Get in the Way

Future Of Accountable Care: Lessons Learned And Potential Paths Forward During A Time Of Transition

A Healthier North Carolina: Governor Cooper Celebrates Nearly 600,000 Enrolled in Medicaid Expansion and Other Major Health Care Accomplishments

December 4, 2024

Significant Cost Savings Realized as Healthy Opportunities Pilots Reach Two-Year Anniversary

As the Healthy Opportunities Pilots (HOP) program reaches its second anniversary, results from an independent study prove that the program is a success. HOP is

May 24, 2024

Healthy Opportunities Pilots Celebrate Two-Year Anniversary

April 2, 2024

CMS Approves New Flexibilities for NC’s 1115 Demonstration Waiver & HOP

On July 7, 2023, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved an amendment to North Carolina’s Medicaid Reform Section 1115 Demonstration. The demonstration, originally

August 2, 2023

DHHS Announces Three Regions for Medicaid Healthy Opportunities Pilots

A Major Milestone for Nation’s First Comprehensive Medicaid Program to Address Non-Medical Drivers of Health. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today

May 21, 2021