Costs watched as Medicaid managed care begins in North Carolina
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After six years of preparations and delays, most of North Carolina s Medicaid recipients switched over to managed care Thursday with its developers hopeful the changes will mean improved health outcomes and controlled costs. It s been a long time coming, said Rep. Donny Lambeth, a Forsyth County Republican who helped pass the managed care law in 2015 and other legislative adjustments, some finalized just this week.
Four statewide health plans and one multi-regional plan will now handle care for roughly 1.6 million of the nearly 2.5 million consumers covered by Medicaid mostly poor children and older adults as well as from another program for children in low- and middle-income families. Another smaller plan for Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians members also has started.
Costs Watched as Medicaid Managed Care Begins in N Carolina
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