RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services received approval from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services to continue the Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program that makes hospital incentives for the state’s medical debt relief initiative possible.
The first two years were approved in July 2024. This new approval supports the state’s work to relieve more than $4 billion and a decade’s worth of medical debt for nearly 2 million low-and middle-income North Carolinians and prevent accumulation of new debt going forward.
“Carrying medical debt for too many people is like carrying a financial anvil. North Carolina’s medical debt relief initiative is…
