NC Medicaid

N.C. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dev Sangvai visited Hendersonville to advocate for mental health and the state legislature to reinstate funding for the Healthy Opportunities Pilot (HOP) program which delivers food, housing support and more to low-income North Carolinians.

Proposed legislation in the N.C. General Assembly would set up the process to implement work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries if the federal government gives the OK.

It could be months before we know how Medicaid could be affected as Congress attempts to trim $2 trillion from federal government spending. State lawmakers have started planning for a possible decrease in funds.

It’s been one year since North Carolina expanded eligibility for Medicaid. Almost 600,000 low-income adults have signed up, nearly achieving the state’s goal for new enrollees in half the expected time.

Medicaid expansion has already provided more than 450,000 low-income North Carolinians with health insurance. Could it also help them find better-paying jobs?

An estimated 80% of people reentering the community from prison are newly eligible for Medicaid. The North Carolina prison system has launched a department-wide effort to help people ages 19 to 64 who are within 90 days of their release date to apply for Medicaid coverage.

Tens of thousands of beneficiaries with extensive care needs are expected to be moved to tailored plans on July 1.

After years of political back-and-forth, North Carolina has finally become the 40th state to expand Medicaid. North Carolina's deputy secretary of Medicaid, Jay Ludlam, says interest in the expanded program is running high.

A report by NC Health News found nearly 68,400 people in North Carolina have lost Medicaid since the state resumed terminations in June — and 87% were the result of lots of unreturned paperwork. Researcher Tricia Brooks of Georgetown University joined us to talk more about this.

Gov. Roy Cooper’s efforts to convince Republican legislators to expand Medicaid for North Carolina’s 1.2 million uninsured continued Friday but, judging by initial comments, legislators remain unimpressed.