North Carolina Medicaid Reform The Health Care Partnership: Recipients, Providers, Taxpayers, Legislators and the Department of Health and HumanServices

April 3, 2013
On April 3, 2013, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory unveiled a plan to reorganize how Medicaid services are delivered by contracting with a few large managed care organizations (MCOs) to provide integrated medical, behavioral health, dental and other Medicaid services. The goal is to create a Medicaid system that uses a comprehensive care entity (CCE) to provide integrated physical and behavioral health care. Legislation has been proposed, and at the same time, the state is planning to seek a Medicaid 1115 demonstration waiver. A CCE request for proposal could be issued by early 2014. The proposed start . . .