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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 Health and Human Services Secretary Dev Sangvai Tours Western North Carolina, Touts Hope4NC and Healthy Opportunities Pilots for Supporting Hurricane Helene Recovery

June 13, 2025

NC Health and Human Services Secretary Dev Sangvai Tours Western North Carolina, Touts Hope4NC and Healthy Opportunities Pilots for Supporting Hurricane Helene Recovery

June 12, 2025

New Research Showing Critical Impact Medicaid Expansion and Healthy Opportunities Pilots Have in Creating Healthier North Carolina

June 2, 2025

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