North Carolina lawmakers, who are still at an impasse over a full state budget, have turned their attention to a potential funding package for a variety of health care projects. But that package is now held up too, as leaders in the state House and Senate disagree over funding for a new children’s hospital and for the state’s Medicaid program, people familiar with the negotiations told WRAL.

Here’s a breakdown on where things stand.

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Medicaid funding. A shortfall of state funds, combined with program changes under congressional Republicans’ spending-and-tax cut bill are causing officials to reassess how much money the state needs to pump into the state’s Medicaid program.

Medicaid leaders said earlier this year that the adjusted level of funding — known as the “r

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