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State Tipoffs Involving North Carolina Newsletter for 2024-12-03 ( 3 items )  
N.C. A.G. Josh Stein Reaches $2.5 Million Medicaid Fraud Settlement (10)
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 3 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $2,505,000 settlement to resolve allegations that Southeastern Behavioral Healthcare Services, LLC, a behavioral health business in Lumberton and Maxton, and its owners, Bertha Hutchinson and Virgil Hutchinson, submitted false claims to the North Carolina Medicaid program. The settlement was reached in partnership with the more PR

N.C. A.G. Josh Stein Statement on Certificate of Need for Western North Carolina (10)
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 3 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following statement on Dec. 2, 2024: * * * Attorney General Josh Stein today shared the following statement after the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) granted a Certificate of Need application for additional beds in Weaverville to AdventHealth. Attorney General Stein had previously written to NCDHHS asking it to reject Mission Hospital's application. "This decision is going  more PR

NC Utilities Commission Approves Duke Energy Progress Request to Lower Customer Rates by 4.5% (10)
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Dec. 3 -- Duke Energy issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: * * * * Falling fuel prices result in lower customer rates * Annual bills for typical residential customer are $235 below national average * * * Starting Dec. 1, rates for Duke Energy Progress residential customers in North Carolina fell by 4.5% as part of an annual adjustment for the cost of fuel used to generate electricity at the utility's power plants. A typical residential customer in N more PR