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A screenshot of Medicaid managed care website
Posted inMedicaid

Almost 1.5 million consumers have been moved to NC Medicaid’s managed care. Now what?

by Liora Engel-Smith June 4, 2021June 3, 2021

By Liora Engel-Smith  Fallin McCoy’s new Medicaid insurance card came in the mail earlier this week. Marked with a red and white logo from WellCare — a private insurer — the connection to the state’s largest public insurer is almost easy to miss.  The old card, a paper document with the North Carolina state seal, […]

A digital image of an ad for Medicaid managed care
Posted inMedicaid

As NC’s Medicaid managed care transition draws near, consumers express concerns and confusion

by Liora Engel-Smith April 8, 2021April 9, 2021
We see a hand holding a cardboard sign that says, "#Free Them All" sticking out the passenger window of a compact white car passing the Durham County Detention Facility. The car is part of a caravan of protestors calling for the release of inmates who are unable to pay bail during the pandemic. It's Father's Day, 2020.
Posted inPrison Health

Even as NC’s COVID numbers stabilize, jail outbreaks spike

by Hannah Critchfield August 11, 2020January 29, 2021
shows three politicians who are usually at odds on the same dias, they're there in order to sign bills to provide COVID relief
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – May 4 – Pandemic politics, slow re-opening, prison COVID plan

by Editor May 4, 2020April 14, 2021
A COVID-19 (coronavirus) testing site at the motor speedway in Charlotte
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – March 25 – NC reports first deaths, stay home orders

by Editor March 25, 2020April 14, 2021
we see the top of a woman's face. She has on a mask agains the novel coronavirus
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – Friday, March 20 – Call for medical professionals, testing ramps up, closures and postponements

by Editor March 20, 2020April 14, 2021

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