North Carolina Medicaid patients face a threat of reduced access to services — before separate changes approved within President Donald Trump's spending-reduction law are implemented — as an impasse over state Medicaid funding extends further.
Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, whose administration oversees Medicaid for 3.1 million people in the ninth-largest state, confirmed Thursday that starting next week the state program will lower reimbursement rates for doctors, hospitals and other medical providers.
