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By Rose Hoban After 2018’s unusual budget process this year’s budget has unfolded in a more “traditional” way. The House unveiled it’s proposal to spend $5.569 billion on health and human services priorities in early May. The Senate finished it’s work on the budget in early June, asking for a total appropriation of $5.552 billion

North Carolina legislators say they’ve been at work already, cranking out proposals and draft legislation to address a number of health care issues. By Rose Hoban North Carolina’s lawmakers returned to Raleigh on Wednesday to be sworn in, take photos with family, meet and then return home for the next two weeks. Even as they

Health officials from the state Department of Health and Human Services report that Medicaid is running well, even as they are working to remake the program. By Rose Hoban After years of computer glitches, poor data and budgets running in the red, North Carolina’s Medicaid program appears to be well in the black for this

Health care executives discussed what Medicaid reform could mean for providers of behavioral health services, and the role Medicaid expansion could play in getting the reform measure approved. By Taylor Sisk A panel of health care executives was convened on Monday at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel to discuss the Medicaid reform bill just signed by