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WEB2 days ago · NC hospitals set for massive payday after agreeing to medical debt relief plan. September 13, 2024. September 3, 2024.
Lost your vaccine card? Need to verify? Here’s how. - NC Health …
WEBAug 10, 2021 · Here’s how to access the verification if you got vaccinated at a local health department, at a mass vaccination site that was run by the state’s DHHS. Step One: Go to the NCDHHS COVID-19 Vaccine Portal. The vaccine portal can be accessed at: https://covid-vaccine-portal.ncdhhs.gov. Step Two: Sign in using your login information.
Answers to questions about Medicaid expansion - NC Health News
WEBDec 1, 2023 · Medicaid generally takes about 45 days to kick in, but its benefits can be applied retroactively. So, if someone goes to the hospital on Dec. 2, but they don’t receive a Medicaid card until mid-January, the hospital can bill the state for their care. In a recent interview with NC Health News, Kody Kinsley, head of DHHS, said Medicaid will pay ...
A nationwide problem, worse in North Carolina - NC Health News
WEBDec 2, 2021 · Recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that over the last year, the crisis grew even worse. More than 100,000 people across the country died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021. Over that period, the nationwide overdose death rate rose 27 percent. In North Carolina, it grew by 37 percent.
Changes needed to fix NC's mental health crisis | NC Health News
WEBAug 23, 2022 · Big changes are needed to turn the tide of North Carolina’s mental health crisis, health leaders say. For North Carolinians to have affordable access to readily available mental health services, health leaders say a cascade of changes need to take place from Medicaid expansion to higher reimbursement rates for providers. Sen. Jim …
The demise of Cardinal Innovations - NC Health News
WEBby Seth Gulledge July 19, 2021. Map of the proposed mental health agencies in North Carolina from late 2011. By that time, Cardinal Innovations' footprint had grown from five counties to 15. Eventually, the organization would manage mental health care for more than 20 counties before boards of commissioners started pulling their constituents out.
Judge's order give NC 10 years to provide services to people with ...
WEBNov 7, 2022 · Judges’ order gives NC 10 years to provide more at-home disability services. Disability Rights North Carolina celebrates Judge Allen Baddour’s ruling that will help more people with disabilities live at home, but state officials say it may take longer to fulfill his order. As the years-long Samantha R. lawsuit winds slowly through the court ...
Medical marijuana legislation could put NC in the green - NC …
WEBJul 13, 2021 · Medical marijuana is legal in 36 states and Washington, D.C., and recreational marijuana is legal in 18, according to Insider, putting North Carolina in the minority of states where weed is not legal in any capacity, even as its northern neighbor, Virginia made plans to legalize up to an ounce of recreational marijuana in three years.
Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid …
WEBThis award-winning series of stories reported in late 2018 explores how Switzerland, France and other European countries implemented drug policies and programs that have diminished their rates of opioid overdose and related infections. Both the Swiss and the French accomplished this by supporting drug users in different ways. Switzerland led …
NC restores SHIIP for seniors choosing Medicare plans - NC …
WEBSep 22, 2021 · By Thomas Goldsmith. The state’s popular NC senior health insurance information program, or SHIIP, decided Monday to bring back online, state-compiled Medicare information that, until a change this year, consumers had used to choose among different Medigap plans. It’s a reversal of a decision earlier this year when the state’s …