6+ hour, 15+ min ago  (344+ words) (The Center Square) – Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act dropped 21.3% in North Carolina to 609,544 in the 12 months between February 2025 and 2026, according to federal data. The percentage trailed 12 other states, each of which had fewer total enrollment decreases in total volume....

1+ day, 41+ min ago  (801+ words) (The Center Square) - Hummelstown retiree Mark Warble suspects, but doesn't know, if AI is behind the significant changes he’s received in his prescription and the repeated deliveries - and charges - he has received for the medical supplies he did not order....

22+ hour, 56+ min ago  (371+ words) (The Center Square) – The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is cracking down on birth tourism in response to a directive issued by Gov. Greg Abbott. “I am pleased that HHSC took decisive action based on my directive last week,…...

23+ hour, 32+ min ago  (501+ words) (The Center Square) – Medical watchdog Do No Harm released a report Tuesday that it says shows how the quality of medical students’ reports has deteriorated, becoming more “weak” and more “woke” since letter grades were terminated. Director of research at…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (290+ words) (The Center Square) – Medicaid reimbursed a North Carolina business $1.7 million prosecutors say is fraudulent and has led to a guilty plea in federal court. Gwendolyn Singleton, 55, owner and operator of Joelle’s Center of Hope in Greensboro, pleaded guilty in the…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (426+ words) (The Center Square) - Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas ranked in the top three of the states that provide veterans with adequate healthcare and pension benefits, according to a new study. Vettory, a veteran job assistance and grant organization, analyzed data from…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (449+ words) (The Center Square) – Medicaid is slated for $1 billion, SNAP for $5.3 million, and a new children’s hospital in the Triangle for $208.5 million in North Carolina’s $34.4 billion state budget. More than $9.3 billion is divvied into various areas of the state Department of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (689+ words) Texas lawmakers are right to ask why health care keeps getting more expensive. Texas Speaker Dustin Burrows created the House Select Committee on Health Care Affordability⁠ this year, and lawmakers have already heard testimony that health costs are consuming more…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (461+ words) As our communities confront the profound impacts of substance abuse and homelessness, The Center Square is maintaining a weekly database dedicated to tracking and mapping overdose deaths in an effort to inform the public of the breadth of a problem....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (708+ words) (The Center Square) – Thousands of hospitals subsidized by American taxpayers could face heightened fiscal scrutiny under new legislation heading to the U.S. House floor. Currently, nonprofit hospitals must provide certain community benefits and charity care and disclose those to the…...