In 2018, the state Division of Health Service Regulation determined that the people of North Carolina "needed" one — and only one — new mobile PET scanner. Three years and…
The number of mega-deal hospital merger and acquisitions hit an all-time high last year, and one of those multi-billion dollar transactions features the proposed partnership between UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare…
The North Carolina Senate has just released its $22.9 billion budget plan for fiscal years 2017-2019. The Senate proposed spending $5.2 billion of that total on all Health and Human Services (HHS)…
View in your browser. Some legislators will be coming into the short session this April with an appetite to do away with North Carolina’s Certificate of Need (CON) law —…
View in your browser. As I write and you read, legislators have allegedly made final closed-door agreements on Certificate of Need (CON) reform — a law in which statists protect…
View in your browser. It’s going to take a while longer for the North Carolina Legislature to pass its two-year budget. Part of the hold up will be finalizing an…
View in your browser. It’s been a little over one week since the House filed HB 200, which would loosen up the state’s Certificate of Need (CON) law — a…
View in your browser. While Obamacare continues to flood the health care sector with more taxes and mandates, it’s simultaneously driving insurers and health care providers to increase price transparency.…
View in your browser. It’s now been one month since Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina went public with its health care cost estimator tool. Regardless of whether…
View in your browser. It is easy to understand why North Carolina hospitals are adamant about keeping the state’s Certificate of Need (CON) regulations locked in the law books. After…
View in your browser. If medical providers have plans to build or expand an existing health care facility, offer new services, update or purchase major medical equipment, they will most…
Click here to view and here to listen to Jon Sanders discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina can help prevent unnecessary increases in health care costs by repealing…