NCCARE360 is the first statewide social needs referral platform in the country coordinating referrals for more than 100,000 North Carolinians to needed services since its creation in 2019
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 11:34 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today that North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. will be stepping down from the agency after 5 years of service to the state.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 3:58 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is expanding the COVID-19 Community Health Worker program, bringing it statewide.
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2021 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the state’s five Medicaid prepaid health plans have joined NCCARE360 — the nation’s first statewide coordinated care network connecting individuals to local services and resources.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Launched in 2015, NCServes is the nation’s first statewide coordinated network of public, private, and non-profit organizations working together to connect military service members, veterans, and military families
Published: Monday, July 19th, 2021 @ 12:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The seven organizations, called Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations or LME/MCOs, are responsible for managing and monitoring the provision of public mental health, intellectual and developmental disabilities
Published: Wednesday, April 14th, 2021 @ 10:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) today announced its selection of seven vendors to hire and manage over 250 Community Health Workers
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2020 @ 5:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCCARE360, the statewide coordinated care network connecting individuals to local services and resources, has expedited its expansion efforts in response to the COVID-19 health crisis
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2020 @ 2:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCCARE360, the state’s first coordinated care network that knits together health care, human services and community-based organizations to deliver person-centered care, is proud to announce its 1,000th referral.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2019 @ 9:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCCARE360, the statewide coordinated care network connecting individuals to local services and resources, is now serving Pitt, Edgecombe, Martin, Bertie, Chowan, Hertford, and Beaufort counties.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ 2:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The two main factors that should be considered when evaluating how hospital mergers affect a health-care market for patients are prices and quality.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The United States health care system is a unique, complex web of consumers, providers, and payers. And it is expensive
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (FHLI) announced the selection of NCCARE360 to build the North Carolina Resource Platform-a new statewide tool to make it easier for providers, insurers and community-based organizations to connect people.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018 @ 11:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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From her 30-year career as a school nurse and nurse administrator, Terri Joyner knows that healthy children learn better- and that school nurses are key to making that happen
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2018 @ 9:54 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The state Department of Health and Human Services proposes to expand Medicaid and restructure the state's controversial mental health provider networks, Secretary Mandy Cohen said Tuesday
Published: Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 @ 3:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recently announced that Vidant Internal Medicine - Tarboro and Vidant Family Medicine - Tarboro, two Vidant Medical Group practices, have received NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2017 @ 4:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the 2015 performance year results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model that show physicians, hospitals and health care providers participating in Accountable Care Organization
Published: Wednesday, September 7th, 2016 @ 8:59 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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North Carolina lawmakers grappling with Medicaid reform should combine elements of competing proposals in the state House and Senate to give patients more choices while remaining accountable to taxpayers, a panel of experts at an April 13 briefing for policy makers and industry officials said.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 3:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With a philosophical gulf still separating the state House and Senate on how best to reform the costly Medicaid program, Illinois is reporting multibillion-dollar success in a reform plan that closely resembles North Carolina Senate Republicans' framework for the future.
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In previous newsletters, I've discussed how both ends of the political spectrum strive to reform our nation's health care delivery system by following through with the "triple aim" concept of former CMS administrator Dr. Donald Berwick - increase access to care, reduce health care costs, and...
Published: Saturday, November 15th, 2014 @ 5:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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ECU Physicians Neurology, a leading provider of care for people living with multiple sclerosis in eastern North Carolina, has been recognized as an official "Partner in MS Care" by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 2:09 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Skeptics of the Medicaid reform plan announced in February by the McCrory administration are wary of using a relatively untested framework of what are known as accountable care organizations to administer and deliver Medicaid services.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Pediatrics - Edenton has earned the prestigious recognition of being added to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home 2011 Program, an innovative program for improving primary care.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Patients in need of mental and physical health care will have an easier time getting both through a new partnership between East Carolina University social work and family medicine.
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 3:36 am
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina could save more than $3 billion in Medicaid prescription costs over the coming decade by negotiating discounts through pharmacy networks...
Published: Monday, June 24th, 2013 @ 5:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Medicaid's ineffective utilization of its unpredictable budget is a parasitic disease to taxpayers and beneficiaries. The state now faces a budget overrun of more than $248 million.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2013 @ 7:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two Vidant Health ambulatory clinics have earned the prestigious recognition of being added to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home 2011 Program, an innovative program for improving primary care.
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 @ 9:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory hopes to inject market-based solutions into the state's costly Medicaid system, shifting the burden of controlling systemic budget overruns from...
Published: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor McCrory outlined a framework for Medicaid reform to improve care, customer service and results for North Carolina's young and elderly, disabled, mentally ill and low-income families.
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2013 @ 8:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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With "consistent support from the [GOP] caucus," the House Health and Human Services Committee will take up a Senate-passed bill today to reject two provisions under the federal Affordable Care Act...
Published: Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 @ 11:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The popular image of Medicaid is that of a small program that provides basic but good-quality medical care to a limited, impoverished segment of North Carolina’s population – and that politicians have skimped on funding it.
Published: Friday, September 14th, 2012 @ 8:13 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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