Jay Ludlam’s departure comes as North Carolina's Medicaid program faces some of its biggest challenges yet. But he believes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It is time to fund Medicaid,” Gov. Josh Stein said in a news conference Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 in Raleigh. “Because if [lawmakers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Registered nurse Matt Coleman works in a patient room on the Cardiovascular & Thoracic Intensive Care Unit at UNC Hospital on ...

Ludlum is departing at the end of the month as deputy secretary for NC Medicaid, the $21 billion program that provides health care coverage for more than 3 million North Carolinians.

State enacted Medicaid cuts of 3–10%, may force providers to cut staff, pay. Medicaid Direct recipients such as some nursing homes will feel cuts earliest. Some organizations are delaying reductions ...

Brenna Dawson walks each day with a certain weight hanging over her head. The North Carolina resident is among the 2.1 million uninsured adults in America stuck in a so-called health care coverage gap ...

A judge has temporarily paused North Carolina's cuts to Medicaid reimbursement for treatment of children with autism, halting the changes statewide while a lawsuit over the cuts proceeds. The state's ...

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — Two years after North Carolina invested $835 million into behavioral health, the Department of Health and Human Services launches the Children and Families Specialty Plan, a ...

Stein restores Medicaid provider rates to Sept. 30 levels and reverses cuts Medicaid could run out of money by April or May without additional funding Legislature deadlocks over more funding; lawsuits ...

Nearly every Democratic state lawmaker in North Carolina traveled to Raleigh on Monday even though there were no votes to be held, nor any other major business on the legislative calendar. Rather, ...