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High Point University closer to welcoming students to the only private dental school in North Carolina

By Anne Blythe As Tropical Storm Ophelia showered the North Carolina Piedmont with a windy drizzle Saturday, dozens of people at High Point University gathered inside the Congdon Hall auditorium for an unusual ceremony. After several years of planning, campus leaders and guests were ready to break ground for the new Workman School of Dental…

Your exorbitant medical bill, brought to you by the latest hospital merger

By Elizabeth Rosenthal KFF Health News When Mark Finney moved to southwestern Virginia with his young family a decade ago, there were different hospital systems and a range of independent doctors to choose from. But when his knee started aching in late 2020, he discovered that Ballad Health was the only game in town: He…

The painful pandemic lessons Mandy Cohen carries to the CDC

By Fred Clasen-Kelly and Rachana Pradhan and Holly K. Hacker KFF Health News CHARLOTTE – As COVID-19 devastated communities across the nation in spring 2020, a group of Black ministers in this racially divided city made an urgent plea for more testing in their neighborhoods. Testing at the time “was outside of communities of color,”…

Medicaid expansion unlikely in NC in 2023 with lawmakers’ stalemate over budget

By Jaymie Baxley Kody Kinsley, head of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, announced Monday that uncertainty over the state budget may push the launch of Medicaid expansion into next year.  The department had hoped that expansion, which is expected to provide health insurance to hundreds of thousands of low-income North Carolinians, would…

North Carolinians are losing Medicaid in droves. Can the purge be stopped? 

By Jaymie Baxley Nearly 68,400 people in North Carolina have lost Medicaid since the state resumed terminations in June, with the vast majority being kicked off the rolls for what are essentially paperwork issues. The purge follows the expiration of the continuous coverage requirement, a federal provision that prevented states from disenrolling Medicaid participants —…