Atrium Health
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Nov 3, 2026
Ashley PetrochenkoHOST
I think that's a good segue to the future state of North Carolina.
Ashley PetrochenkoHOST
What does that look like? I know maybe you can tell listeners a little bit about the recent partnership with Atrium Health and how does that set the stage for the future?
Hannah TwinemGUEST
A really interesting distinction is it's really about maintaining your independence while having partners.
Hannah TwinemGUEST
And so the clinical affiliation with Atrium, that was a decision made and it benefits both organizations.
Hannah TwinemGUEST
So let's both stack hands and let's do what we're both good at.
Hannah TwinemGUEST
My doctor is on the sidelines.
Hannah TwinemGUEST
He's the team doctor, right? Atrium Health is not.
Hannah TwinemGUEST
Their own employed physician is not that team doctor, but ours is.
Ben ThompsonGUEST
And I think was actually arrested when they say he was about to turn himself in.
Mike CollinsHOST
There has been a battle going on over the last month or so between the state employees health plan and atrium health, but the two have finally reached an agreement that keeps costs at all atrium hospitals for people covered by the state employees health plan.
Mike CollinsHOST
at the same level next year as it has been this year.
Mike CollinsHOST
State Treasurer Brad Briner has been at the center of these negotiations.
Brian BaltashevitzHOST
A major source of uncertainty for North Carolina teachers, state employees and retirees is over.
Brian BaltashevitzHOST
State Treasurer Brad Briner announced Tuesday that Atrium Health will remain in network for state health plan members under a new multi-year agreement.
Brian BaltashevitzHOST
For the average member, that means Atrium doctors and hospitals will stay in-network and in the plans accessed here beginning in 2027, effectively maintaining 2026 health care costs.
Brian BaltashevitzHOST
The deal affects roughly 750,000 state employees, retirees, and their families.
Steven BeckHOST
And it's supposed to be a big-time event ongoing for North Carolina A&T all the way up through Sunday.
Steven BeckHOST
Atrium Health is going to remain an in-network provider, they say, for the state health plan, reversing a decision announced just a couple of weeks back.
Steven BeckHOST
Atrium agreed to abandon a subsidy program that state officials said could worsen the plan's deficit.
Steven BeckHOST
The state now will also drop its related lawsuit to that.
Aaron KeckHOST
Also in state news, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has joined 19 other states in a federal lawsuit against Dollar General, alleging the company deliberately charges customers more for items at the cash register than the prices listed on shelves.
Aaron KeckHOST
And officials with the state health plan have reached an agreement with Atrium Health to bring those hospitals back in network.
Aaron KeckHOST
Atrium is based out of Charlotte, but is currently trying to move into the triangle by merging with WakeMed.
Aaron KeckHOST
Back in Chapel Hill, Orange County officials have named a new interim head of the Orange County Visitors Bureau, Shelly Green, who served as executive director back in the 90s.
speaker_2HOST
Dr. Freischlag has a nearly four-decade career as a vascular surgeon.
speaker_2HOST
She has taken on numerous clinical and leadership roles, and at present she serves as both Chief Executive Officer of Atrium Health and the Dean of Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
speaker_2HOST
Career highlights for her include serving as the first female president of SVS in 2013, ACS president in 2021, she is a well-known thoracic outlet specialist,
Crystal McLeodHOST
and she was editor-in-chief for JAMA Surgery for a
Julie FreischlagGUEST
And we've grown.
Julie FreischlagGUEST
We're a five-hospital system now, about 150 clinics, almost close to $5 billion, where we had been $1.8 billion.
Julie FreischlagGUEST
And we've also now partnered with Atrium Health.
Julie FreischlagGUEST
So we're putting a second campus of the medical school in Charlotte, and then we partnered again with Advocate Health.
Terry CoutsolioutsosHOST
You know, you talk about like not enough workers.
Terry CoutsolioutsosHOST
And I was just thinking through, you know, a few years back, which was Atrium Health back in North Carolina.
Terry CoutsolioutsosHOST
And they were actually talking about the same challenge around biomedical space and supporting the hospital system and trying to figure out ways to create apprenticeships and alternative learning channels from, you know, going from high school and directly into a biomedical engineering kind of program apprenticeship.
Terry CoutsolioutsosHOST
What does that look like in today's marketplace?
Mike CollinsHOST
There's a lot going on in the world of health care in North Carolina, much of it concerning.
Mike CollinsHOST
The North Carolina state health plan is in a dispute with Atrium Health over a program intended to lower costs for state employees, but which may not actually work that way.
Mike CollinsHOST
Meanwhile, Atrium Health announced plans to merge with Wake Med in Raleigh, even as Durham-based Duke Health wants to team up with Gastonia-based Caramont Health to build two hospitals in Mecklenburg County.
Mike CollinsHOST
There are promises about these moves, lowering costs and making cutting-edge health care more available, but some fear it limits competition and will increase costs.
Mike CollinsHOST
What this could mean for patients, health care workers and taxpayers, this hour on Charlotte Talks.
Mike CollinsHOST
Thanks for having
Michelle CrouchGUEST
me.
Mike CollinsHOST
Because the state health plan impacts so many people and because there have been numerous changes, plus an ongoing dispute between the plan and Atrium Health.
Lauren JohnsonHOST
quickly.
Lauren JohnsonHOST
Still to come at 11, a major breakthrough in the proposed merger between Wake Med and Atrium Health.
Steve DanielsHOST
Yeah, we'll tell you what the Wake County Commission decided today, where we go now in that path that could bring those two health care giants together.
Lauren JohnsonHOST
Plus, tonight...
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We are local news.
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ABC 11 Eyewitness News continues now.
Lauren JohnsonHOST
We're following a major milestone tonight in the proposed merger between Wake Med and Atrium Health.
Steve DanielsHOST
Yeah, the chair of the Wake County Commission has signed the second amendment to the transfer agreement.
Esther WickhamHOST
since that seems to be a huge issue coming up with voter accuracy, voter ID and different things like that.
Esther WickhamHOST
Next in the state of North Carolina, North Carolina State Treasurer Brad Briner says the Atrium Health will move out of network for the state health plan on January 1st, 2027, affecting over 700,000 teachers, state employees, retirees, and lawmakers.
Esther WickhamHOST
Now, the decision comes as the plans face a projected $500 million deficit this year and a billion dollars in 2027.
Esther WickhamHOST
Briner says the move is necessary to control costs and protect the plan's financial stability.
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