Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools outperformed most urban districts across the country on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, with the nation’s highest score in eighth grade math. But ...

In its continuing efforts to improve the organ donation and transplant system and promote health equity, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Centers for Medicare ...

In late May, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its latest performance report for the nation’s 55 Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs), the nonprofits responsible for ...

CHARLOTTE — For the first time, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools had more campuses removed from the state’s low-performing list than it had added. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction on ...

Medicare’s value-based programs are penalizing inpatient hospitals for community-level health equity factors that impact outcomes but are largely out of hospitals’ control, according to a recent ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education candidates call sharp, post-pandemic declines in average reading and math test scores unsurprising and say problems begin with leadership. CMS on Monday posted ...

Prior authorization has become one of the clearest points where administrative complexity directly affects patient care. For ...

As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools celebrates significant gains in student achievement, many educators who helped make those results possible say they — and their pocketbooks — are stretched thinner ...