RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina will restore Medicaid provider rates to pre-cut levels following court decisions favoring patients, but the program still faces a funding shortfall that could deplete resources by spring, Gov. Josh Stein announced Wednesday.
The state is returning provider rates to their Sept. 30 levels after months of cuts triggered by the General Assembly’s failure to allocate additional funding for the program, which serves more than 3 million North Carolinians.
“Medicaid is a lifeline for the more than 3 million North Carolinians across the state,” Stein said at a press conference alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Dev Sangvai and health care advocates. “It is the difference for those people between being able to go to a doctor’s office to get better and being denied critical care because it is too expensive.”…