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A new perk for state workers: free surgery
By Michelle Crouch What if your health plan offered free surgery, but only by surgeons on its approved list? That’s the incentive behind a new program the North Carolina State Health Plan is rolling out for more than 700,000 teachers, state workers and their families. The plan connects members needing certain procedures with a select…
Tens of thousands of mothers were flagged to police over flawed drug tests at childbirth
By Shoshana Walter and Jill Castellano The Marshall Project Ayanna Harris-Rashid was sitting up in bed, her newborn son latched to her breast, one hand scrolling on her phone, when the police called. She was wanted on a felony charge of child neglect. Harris-Rashid had just had her third child in March of 2021. To ease pain and…
ACA enrollment dropped sharply in North Carolina. More people across the state are expected to lose coverage.
By Jacob Biba NCLocal Amid rising costs and the expiration of enhanced subsidies, fewer North Carolina residents enrolled in health coverage under the Affordable Care Act for 2026, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. What is ACA Coverage and why do people use it? Signed into law in…
After an abnormal mammogram, a battle for care
By Michelle Crouch The Charlotte Ledger Kimberly Sanders thought she was doing the right thing when she stepped into a mobile mammogram van parked outside her Charlotte workplace, a primary care clinic, last October. It seemed like a simple, convenient way to get her annual breast cancer screening. But when the scan came back abnormal,…
Without school vaccine mandates, many kids may never see a doctor
By Sarah Carr Hechinger Report Every December brings an end-of-year crush to Washington, D.C.’s pediatric clinics. In addition to the usual culprits — colds, the flu, RSV — that’s also the time when the city school district issues notices reminding parents of children who are behind on required vaccinations to get caught up by December…
At 75, Myron Cohen isn’t interested in retiring. But fewer titles would be welcome.
By Rose Hoban About 15 years ago, Myron Cohen helped change the course of a pandemic. Cohen, who’s has been an infectious disease researcher and administrator at UNC Chapel Hill for more than four decades, was lauded worldwide in 2011 for leading a seminal study showing a stunning result: Treating people with HIV with antiretroviral…
