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Advocates For Black Maternal Health Press NC General Assembly To Approve...
Advocates For Black Maternal Health Press NC General Assembly To Approve ‘MOMnibus’ Legislation (NC Newsline, Clayton Henkel) – On the week that North Carolina senators were busy rolling out a $32.6B...
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Diagnosed With ‘Dense Breasts’? You May Need More Than A Mammogram
Diagnosed With ‘Dense Breasts’? You May Need More Than A Mammogram (NPR, Yuki Noguchi) – Joy, a 46-year-old in Pittsburgh, recalls being the same age as her teenage boys, when her own mother...
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Advanced Healthcare Leaders New Co-Chair
Advanced Healthcare Leaders New Co-Chair The NC Medical Society’s Advanced Healthcare Leaders program welcomes Dr. Michaux Kilpatrick, MD, PhD, as a new Co-Chair. Dr. Kilpatrick is a neurological...
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NC Institute of Medicine Hosting Task Force on Veterans’ Health
The North Carolina Institute of Medicine invites you to join us for a gathering to kick off the start of a task force on Veterans’ health! REGISTER HERE! Thursday, May 22 – 2:00 – 5:00 PM Chapel...
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Duke Biologist: Honey, I Shrunk The Proteins!
Duke Biologist: Honey, I Shrunk The Proteins! (Duke School of Medicine, Angela Spivey) – In August 2024, Duke University School of Medicine computational biologist Rohit Singh, PhD, posted on the...
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NCMS Advanced Healthcare Leadership Program Faculty Member Featured in Voyage...
NCMS Advanced Healthcare Leadership Program Faculty Member Featured in Voyage Magazine! (Voyage Raleigh) – Today we’d like to introduce you to Amna Shabbir, MD, NBC-HWC, CPC Hi Amna, it’s an honor to...
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Leading With Heart: Creating Healthy Work Environments
Leading With Heart: Creating Healthy Work Environments (Novant Health, Page Leggett) – In the next 30 minutes, around 60 Americans are going to die of heart disease. And most were preventable. Most...
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New Report: Emergency Care Becoming Increasingly Vulnerable In The United States
New Report: Emergency Care Becoming Increasingly Vulnerable In The United States (HealthDay News) — The viability of hospital-based emergency care in the United States is at risk, according to a RAND...
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How YOU Can Help Reduce Inequities In Diabetes Prevention
How YOU Can Help Reduce Inequities In Diabetes Prevention (AMA, Andis Robeznieks) – Black women are 2.3 times as likely and Hispanic women 1.4 times more likely to die of diabetes as non-Hispanic...
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SAVE THE DATES! Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) Skill Building Trainings
SAVE THE DATES! Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) Skill Building Trainings Please mark your calendars for the following CoCM Skill Building Trainings on a variety of topics. Trainings are from 8 a.m. –...
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NC AHEC Offering Free Clinical Precepting Courses Online
Clinical Precepting Online Series FREE ONLINE COURSES These courses are geared to an interprofessional audience of clinical preceptors who work with students, residents, or other advanced learners...
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White Coat Day is Wednesday! NCMS Has A Big Announcement on Prior Authorization!
The North Carolina Medical Society’s White Coat Day is just two days away! This Wednesday, physicians and PAs from across the state will come together to demonstrate the medical community’s united...
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Even Light Exercise Could Help Slow Cognitive Decline In People At Risk Of...
Even Light Exercise Could Help Slow Cognitive Decline In People At Risk Of Alzheimer’s Disease (Atrium Health, Myra Wright) — Low and moderate-high intensity exercise could be valuable tools in the...
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What if Medicaid Were Run More Like Target?
What if Medicaid Were Run More Like Target? (The Carolina Journal, Craig Richardson and Erik Randolph) — What if state Medicaid programs were run more like an innovative, customer-friendly corporation...
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Medicaid Managed Care | May 2025 Back Porch Chat
Medicaid Managed Care | May 2025 Back Porch Chat Key NC Medicaid Updates Thursday, May 15 | noon-1 p.m. Please join this month’s Back Porch Chat on Thursday, May 15 from 12-1 p.m. This webinar will be...
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Let Your Patients Know! NCDHHS Distributing Free Fans Starting May 1
Operation Fan Heat Relief Distributing Fans to Eligible Recipients May 1 – Oct. 31 RALEIGH – The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Aging is partnering with North...
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Only 25.1% of North Carolina Small Businesses Offer Health Coverage, Down...
Only 25.1% of North Carolina Small Businesses Offer Health Coverage, Down From 33.8% in 2009 (Insurance NewsNet) — Rising healthcare costs have put increasing pressure on small businesses across the...
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Fixing Prior Auth: Nearly 40 Prior Authorizations A Week Is Way Too Many
Fixing Prior Auth: Nearly 40 Prior Authorizations A Week Is Way Too Many (AMA, Tanya Albert Henry) — The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior...
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Hospital Care At Home, For Kids
Hospital Care At Home, For Kids (Charlotte Ledger, Michelle Crouch) — When 6-year-old Mackenzie Conlon was hospitalized with the flu at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital in February, all she...
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Enhancing Support for Patients with Hearing Loss Through Medicaid...
Enhancing Support for Patients with Hearing Loss Through Medicaid Communication Access South Piedmont AHEC is hosting a virtual lunch and learn event on Wednesday, May 21st from 12:00pm to 1:00 pm at...
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