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Medicaid contractor: 155 jobs on the line if state contract ends
A health-care administrator may have to lay off 155 employees in Morrisville if the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services doesn't renew its contract.ValueOptions told the N.C. Department of...
View ArticleBiggest state contract behind bigtime
The biggest single state contract in North Carolina is behind schedule and over budget. The Medicaid claims system is two years behind and $200 million over the original contract signed in 2008.
View ArticleMedicaid cuts would cost thousands of N.C. jobs, report says
Proposed federal cuts to Medicaid could cost North Carolina thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in business activity, warns a report by Families USA.The nonpartisan health and consumer advocacy...
View ArticleMedicaid contractor to lay off 97
The private contractor that has handled Medicaid claims for North Carolina for the past decade is laying off 97 people in the wake of a contract cancellation.ValueOptions has notified the N.C....
View ArticlePhil Berger: What's missing in N&O Medicaid stories and editorials
Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger explains in a letter to the editor, printed on tomorrow's editorial page and online now, why Republicans are rejecting the Medicaid...
View ArticleMedicaid Manager gets 25 percent raise after $237,500 in overtime - update
The Medicaid manager who made $237,500 in overtime over the last four years recently received a 25 percent raise. Angie Sligh, the Medicaid Management Information System director, is now being paid an...
View ArticleA 'Sophie's Choice' for McCrory on Medicaid
Christopher J. Conover – a research scholar at Duke University’s Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, an adjunct scholar at AEI, affiliated senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at...
View ArticleGov. Pat McCrory: Time for offshore drilling and an 'unconventional' approach...
Under the provided headline "More Federal Cooperation Is Needed To Unleash North Carolina’s Economy," Gov. Pat McCrory offers these thoughts before he heads to Houston on Monday for a governors'...
View ArticleWhen you have the health care program other states envy, why mess with it?
Conrad L. Flick, a Cary doctor and former director of the American Academy of Family Physicians, writes in a letter too long for print of Community Care of NC:-------- I read with interest the...
View ArticleThe 411 on Wake County getting out of the mental health business Monday
The editorial board and some news reporters met with Wake County manager David Cooke and several other folks this week to get an update on upcoming changes that are transforming the behavioral health...
View ArticleNC study tackles reducing hospital readmisions of the state's sickest and...
A North Carolina study on reducing costly hospital readmissions -- believed to be the largest study if its kind -- reduced hospital stays by 20 percent among the sickest and poorest patients who are...
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