When North Carolina lawmakers drafted a Medicaid expansion bill, they included a provision to end the program if federal cost-sharing terms changed to increase the state’s financial burden.

NC's Healthy Opportunities Program, "model for nation," helping rural areas with food, housing, utilities, could be expanded ...

“For a period of time today, NC Medicaid was not able to access the Payment Management Services portal but is now able to get into the system,” a NCDHHS spokesperson told CBS 17. As of Tuesday ...

A key federal funding commitment has been renewed that's at the heart of making possible North Carolina's ground-breaking ...

The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration ...

through which state Medicaid departments receive federal funding. The NC Department of Health and Human Services’ $40 billion budget for the year is 79% funded by the federal government.

Funding reductions proposed by Congress threaten hospitals, children’s health and local economies in rural communities.

Perhaps the most important shift for Medicaid — and the source of its growing popularity — is that the program isn’t really seen as a handout anymore. A large majority of Americans, including 45 ...