Medicaid ‘unwinding’ winds down in NC
By Jaymie Baxley In June 2023, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services began verifying the eligibility of 2.5 million Medicaid participants for the…
By Jaymie Baxley In June 2023, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services began verifying the eligibility of 2.5 million Medicaid participants for the…
By Grace Vitaglione NC Medicaid costs fluctuate each year. The state Department of Health and Human Services forecasts how costs might change and asks the…
By Anne Blythe Rep. John Torbett, a Republican from the small Gaston County town of Stanley, lingered with reporters after a June 11 legislative meeting…
By Jaymie Baxley Mandy Cohen, who led North Carolina’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is facing her first major test as director of the federal…
By Anne Blythe Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist at Duke University with a knack for making medicine and science easily understood, is just as…
By Jennifer Fernandez RALEIGH — Dozens of child care facilities across North Carolina closed Thursday. Not because they didn’t have enough teachers — which many…
By Rachel Baldauf Amanda Price and her husband were finally in the process of adopting their three daughters in 2022. The couple had fostered the…
By Ben Rappaport This is the first in a two-part project about the children’s mental health crisis in Bladen, Columbus, Robeson and Scotland counties. Read…
By David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer As the nation reeled from covid-19, the federal government sent many Americans a financial lifeline. But some recipients say…