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WEBSep 11, 2024 — Atrium Health cancels thousands of past medical debt judgments. By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger Atrium Health announced Thursday, Sept. 19, that it is wiping out all existing judgments and liens against patients for unpaid medical bills, offering relief to scores of North Carolinians who have been sued by the hospital system.
'Tailored’ Medicaid plans launching in North Carolina - North …
WEBJun 18, 2024 — Tailored plans are part of the Medicaid “ transformation ” that North Carolina started in 2021. That year, the state changed its delivery system for Medicaid services. Providers who had been reimbursed directly for services by the state now receive care paid for by commercial insurers, who are paid a fixed, per-member, per-month rate to ...
Lost your vaccine card? Need to verify? Here’s how. - NC Health …
WEBAug 10, 2021 — Here’s how to access the verification if you got vaccinated at a local health department, at a mass vaccination site that was run by the state’s DHHS. Step One: Go to the NCDHHS COVID-19 Vaccine Portal. The vaccine portal can be accessed at: https://covid-vaccine-portal.ncdhhs.gov. Step Two: Sign in using your login information.
Atrium to combine with Wake Forest Health, med school - NC …
WEBOct 12, 2020 — Atrium combines with Wake Forest Baptist and its medical school. Details are still vague, but the Charlotte-based system announced plans to form a new enterprise with Wake-Forest Baptist on Friday. The combined organization will create a regional system with more than 40 hospitals. Expanding its foothold in …
A nationwide problem, worse in North Carolina - NC Health News
WEBDec 2, 2021 — Recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that over the last year, the crisis grew even worse. More than 100,000 people across the country died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021. Over that period, the nationwide overdose death rate rose 27 percent. In North Carolina, it grew by 37 percent.
More coverage on Mission Hospital - North Carolina Health News
WEBFeb 17, 2024 — By Andrew R. Jones. Asheville Watchdog. At least three patients died and others were endangered at Mission Hospital in 2022 and 2023 following significant delays and lapses of care in the emergency department and other areas, according to a scathing U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report obtained Thursday by Asheville Watchdog.. The 384-page document details why CMS placed the ...
NC Medicaid is moving to managed care - NC Health News
WEBMay 7, 2021 — By Liora Engel-Smith. North Carolina’s Medicaid program is shifting roughly two-thirds of its enrollees into managed care this summer, starting on July 1. In the process, thousands of enrollees — some of whom have never had to choose health insurance or a network — were thrust into a process that many have found difficult and confusing.
The state of medical marijuana legalization in NC - NC Health News
WEBApr 20, 2022 — The SurveyUSA poll found that 72 percent of North Carolinians supported medical marijuana legalization. Support for medical marijuana is high across the political spectrum. The poll found that 64 percent of registered Republicans, 75 percent of registered Democrats and 78 percent of unaffiliated voters supported legalization.
Medical marijuana legislation could put NC in the green - NC …
WEBJul 13, 2021 — Medical marijuana is legal in 36 states and Washington, D.C., and recreational marijuana is legal in 18, according to Insider, putting North Carolina in the minority of states where weed is not legal in any capacity, even as its northern neighbor, Virginia made plans to legalize up to an ounce of recreational marijuana in three years.
Experts: safe smoking kits reduce harm from drug use | NC Health …
WEBFeb 23, 2022 — By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven. In December, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced something that could change many lives: for the first time ever, the agency planned to distribute $30 million in grants to fund harm reduction services nationwide. Harm reduction practices aim to reduce some of the negative impacts of drug use.