Rural healthcare providers feel the pain of North Carolina’s Medicaid gap
By Lauren Ketwitz – 3/22/2022 NC POLICY WATCH On her morning commute to work, Dr. Laura Ucik, a rural family physician in the northern Piedmont of North Carolina, thinks about the patients who could have avoided serious illness and injury had they qualified for Medicaid years ago. One such patient with severe stomach pain couldn’t afford […]
