North Carolina Healthcare Intel

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The North Carolina Institute of Medicine has compiled a directory of state and federal health departments and divisions with descriptions of their responsibilities.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for ensuring the health, safety and well-being of all state residents.

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The North Carolina Medical Board was established to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery for the benefit and protection of North Carolinians.

NCDHHS is holding a ceremony to mark the launch of a new electronic health records system for state-operated health facilities, representing a significant advancement in patient communication and health care.

OSHA inspections of healthcare facilities most commonly find three violations: an Exposure Control Plan that has not been reviewed annually (date-stamped review required), engineering controls that have not been re-evaluated when new devices are introduced, and post-exposure protocols that do not match the actual reporting workflow.

Across most payors, the top-five denial reasons account for over 80% of prior-auth rejections: missing clinical documentation, wrong CPT/HCPCS code, service not in benefit plan, step-therapy not completed, and ordering provider not on the patient's plan. The same five repeat across plans because they are the easiest to deny on automation.

The MIPS cost performance category is calculated retrospectively by CMS using attributed Medicare claims; clinicians cannot directly affect what is attributed. The two attribution methods (TPCC and MSPB) capture different beneficiary cohorts. Practices that try to "manage" cost without understanding which patients are attributed to which clinician typically waste effort.