/tags/health-care-reform health care reform en-US Copyright Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:50:11 GMT /politics/2025-03-26/nc-senate-health-care-cost-transparency-bill The state Senate is voting this week to require more transparency around the cost of health care services, part of legislative attempts to make health care in North Carolina more affordable. Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:50:11 GMT /politics/2025-03-26/nc-senate-health-care-cost-transparency-bill Colin Campbell /health/2021-11-29/after-federal-agency-warnings-nc-hospitals-say-they-now-comply-with-price-transparency-rule Months after a new health care price transparency rule went into effect, some North Carolina hospitals failed to show full compliance. Now, nearly a full year under the new rule, leaders from those hospitals say they are fully following the policy, but regulators have not publicly released information to show these hospitals are indeed in good standing. Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:33:39 GMT /health/2021-11-29/after-federal-agency-warnings-nc-hospitals-say-they-now-comply-with-price-transparency-rule Jason deBruyn, Claire Donnelly /show/the-state-of-things/2019-04-10/a-gop-medicaid-like-expansion-bill-death-by-distribution-legislation-and-more North Carolina House Republicans touted a bill on Tuesday that would expand health coverage to more uninsured adults who make too much to qualify for… Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:35:34 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2019-04-10/a-gop-medicaid-like-expansion-bill-death-by-distribution-legislation-and-more Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /health/2019-04-10/a-gop-medicaid-like-expansion-bill-death-by-distribution-legislation-and-more North Carolina House Republicans touted a bill on Tuesday that would expand health coverage to more uninsured adults who make too much to qualify for… Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:35:34 GMT /health/2019-04-10/a-gop-medicaid-like-expansion-bill-death-by-distribution-legislation-and-more Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2019-04-10/former-health-insurance-leader-now-touts-medicare-for-all Wendell Potter spent two decades in senior positions at major health insurance companies before he became a whistleblower. A crisis of conscience sprung… Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:07:57 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2019-04-10/former-health-insurance-leader-now-touts-medicare-for-all Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /health/2019-04-10/former-health-insurance-leader-now-touts-medicare-for-all Wendell Potter spent two decades in senior positions at major health insurance companies before he became a whistleblower. A crisis of conscience sprung… Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:07:57 GMT /health/2019-04-10/former-health-insurance-leader-now-touts-medicare-for-all Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio