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Continuing strong performances by Cone Health’s investment portfolio lifted the Greensboro healthcare system to $138.3 million in excess revenue over expenses through the first half of fiscal 2023-24.

According to the North Carolina Healthcare Association, 600,000 people are now eligible to receive benefits but just over half of that number, 346,408 people, have enrolled.  Since expansion began, the program has covered more than 265,000 prescriptions for new enrollees for things like heart health, diabetes, and other illnesses and paid more than $4.8 million in claims for dental services.

Here are 10 health systems with strong operational metrics and solid financial positions, according to reports from credit rating agencies Fitch Ratings and Moodys Investors Service released since Dec. 1. 

Examination of N.S. triple murder-suicide suggests about two dozen improvements

This policy watch examines the implications of North Carolina's Medicaid expansion as well as key issues to watch there and across other states.

| Joanne Cole | The Select Board opened 2024 by checking items off their to-do list. They buttoned up an agreement with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office to use space in the Public Works building and approved a revised application for appointment to town boards and committees, topics previously discussed at length. At the January

What's on the horizon in 2024? Here are the health policy stories that we'll be following in the coming year.

Here are 68 health systems with strong operational metrics and solid financial positions, according to reports from credit rating agencies.

The sustained, collaborative effort to expand Medicaid will improve the lives of working North Carolinians who, prior to enactment, earned too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford insurance on the marketplace.

Nurses who care for patients in their homes in central Oregon are pushing to get their union contract negotiations across the finish line. Home health and hospice care workers at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart in the Eugene area have been in a long struggle to complete negotiations. The nurses contract expired in April. ...