“These fees are being charged to people for things that have nothing to do with hospital care,” Kelmar said. “Insurance companies are rightly saying, ‘We’re not paying this, because it’s not hospital ...

In North Carolina, medical debt judgments can last for 20 years and automatically place liens against patients’ homes, ...

A new report suggests that regulatory action in the state’s poultry concentrated agriculture feeding operation industry is ...

The N.C. Department of Adult Correction charges fees for some medical visits, but advocates say it’s time for that to change.

The newsroom won six first, nine second and six third place awards. The wins included a sweep of the graphic/illustration ...

Document reveals how much each hospital will collect in federal Medicaid money for agreeing to forgive medical debt.

The federal government pays most of North Carolina’s Medicaid expenditure, providing 65.91 cents of every dollar spent this ...

State officials, lawmakers and advocates all say that North Carolina has been working for years to improve the system.

Organizations are addressing the divide with a holistic approach to reshaping the rural health care landscape for the better.

Still, the coalition knows that making clinical trials more accessible to underrepresented groups doesn’t necessarily mean that members of those groups will participate in the studies. Hayes noted ...

Though phones are often seen as distracting, many parents and guardians want students to have phones in schools for emergency situations.

During the dark days of the pandemic, funding for child care was a rare bright spot. Typically, federal support for child care to North Carolina runs at about $400 million a year, but that grew to ...