North Carolina news and information

Editor's note: As CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C., Michael Tarwater leads one of the largest public hospital systems in the U.S. and faces carrying out its mission in two states that have shunned the coverage expansions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With...
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Two North Carolina hospitals recently reported operating losses that they say are attributable in part to projected revenue that has been delayed related to problems rolling out their version of the Epic EHR system, particularly with billing, procedure coding and collections.
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Medical software company Allscripts Healthcare Solutions plans to hire another 350 workers in North Carolina's Research Triangle region over the next 4½ years to expand its research and development work, chief executive Paul Black said Wednesday.
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CaroMont Health in Gastonia, N.C., has fired its president and CEO, Randall Kelley.The decision to release Kelley comes in the wake of a controversial rebranding campaign that proposed changing the name of Gaston Memorial Hospital to CaroMont Regional Medical Center and adopting the slogan...
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CaroMont Health has decided it doesn't want to “Cheat death” anymore. Seems the hospital organization in Gastonia, N.C., wasn't anticipating the negative reaction that greeted its new tagline this month.
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Even with a year's grace period, many providers, payers and health information technology vendors are still running behind schedule for the massive conversion next year to ICD-10 codes.
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North Carolina's $13 billion Medicaid program needs a big dose of private competition that will come from paying a handful of statewide managed-care providers to deliver medical, mental, and dental care to the elderly and disabled for a stable cost, Gov. Pat McCrory said Wednesday.
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Nurse anesthetists from across the state packed a hearing room at the North Carolina General Assembly on Wednesday to show their dislike of a bill that calls for a physician to formally supervise their work.
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IRVING, Texas—Christus Health, a Catholic not-for-profit health system, announced that it plans to enter into a joint venture with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a Chilean university owned by the Catholic Church. The memorandum of understanding signed by the two provides for...
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory says he does not think the state is ready to run health exchanges called for in the Affordable Care Act.
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