North Carolina Awards Medicaid Regional Tailored Plan Contracts To Seven LME/MCO Plans

On July 26, 2021, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced it had selected all seven of the state’s local management entities/managed care organizations (LME/MCOs) that manage public behavioral health services to become regional specialized managed care plans for Medicaid beneficiaries with behavioral health disorders or intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD). The plans, called Behavioral Health/IDD Tailored Plans, were awarded to Alliance Health, Eastpointe, Partners Health Management, Sandhills Center, Trillium Health Resources, Vaya Health, and Cardinal Innovations Healthcare. Due to the Cardinal Innovation Healthcare merger with Vaya Health, NCDHHS noted that it . . .