North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein speaks while Chelsea Gray of Rutherfordton, N.C., left, and Dr. Jenna Beckham, right, listen at a news conference about Medicaid reimbursement rate reductions at the Alliance Medical Ministry in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Medicaid patients face a threat of reduced access to services — before separate changes approved within President Donald Trump’s spending-reduction law are implemented — as an impasse over state Medicaid funding extends further.

Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, whose administration oversees Medicaid for 3.1 million people in the ninth-largest state, confirmed Thursday that starting next week the state program will lower reimbursement rates for doctors, hospital

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