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Cardinal Innovations officials are hopeful that an initiative designed to enhance youth behavioral-health services in Mecklenburg County will have a spillover effect in Forsyth County.
Cardinal, based in Charlotte, oversees providers for mental health, substance abuse and developmental disabilities services for more than 800,000 North Carolinians utilizing federal and state Medicaid funds.
Its network includes Alamance, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Stokes and Rockingham counties in the Triad. Nearly 25% of its network population is in Mecklenburg.
Cardinal has relied the past three months on public relations campaigns in an attempt to keep its behavioral health oversight network intact as six of its 20 counties â including Forsyth and Mecklenburg â are in various stages of departure. Cabarrus, Orange, Stanly and Union have been on the same path.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Cardinal Innovations Healthcare announced today that it has completed new agreements with three major behavioral health providers in Charlotte to serve more youth who represent the most complex and challenging cases – seeking to strengthen a child welfare system that is stretched thin.
Through these new agreements – with
Thompson Child & Family Focus,
Cardinal Innovations has returned to a familiar strategy â a public relations campaign â in an attempt to keep its behavioral health oversight network intact as six of its 20 counties are in various stages of departure.
That includes Forsyth County, whose board of commissioners unanimously authorized on Nov. 12 a resolution that began the process of disengaging from Cardinal, the state s largest behavioral health managed-care organization.
The resolution said Forsyth has repeatedly addressed concerns directly with Cardinal over the years with little to no resolution. The county is actively evaluating options with other MCOs, commission vice chairman Don Martin said. It is clear this is a lengthy process.
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