North Carolina Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Expects Surge in Patients as 'Unwinding' Puts Medicaid Benefits at Risk for at Least 300,000
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--North Carolina’s nonprofit free and charitable clinics that provide low-cost/no-cost health care to the uninsured are expecting an influx of new patients as more than 300,000 people face losing their Medicaid coverage due to changes in the federal insurance program. Since March 2020, as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, states had been required to maintain enrollment of nearly all Medicaid beneficiaries and their level of coverage. That require