By Jaymie Baxley Key Takeaways The Healthy Opportunities Pilot, a first-of-its-kind initiative that used Medicaid dollars to address non-medical health needs of rural North Carolinians, will resume in January after an 18-month pause. However, the scope of the program will be drastically reduced. Before it was halted in July 2025, HOP offered nearly 30 nonclinical […] The post Scaled-back version of NC’s rural health pilot will return in January appeared first on North Carolina Health News.