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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 Institute of Medicine and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are partnering to convene Regional Leadership Summits involving Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations
Published: Friday, December 2nd, 2016 @ 10:36 am
By: Christopher Maye
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The continuing calls to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act have a seemingly unlikely ally - Medicaid Health Plans of America, the trade association representing a number of top Medicaid managed care organizations
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State health officials announced today that the state- and Medicaid-funded Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations providing mental health, intellectual and developmental disability and substance use services to North Carolina citizens will be consolidating into four service regions
Published: Saturday, March 19th, 2016 @ 11:48 am
By: Christopher Maye
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After more than three years of debate and several false starts the legislature passed and Governor McCrory signed into law a Medicaid Reform law in 2015.
Published: Thursday, January 14th, 2016 @ 12:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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There's something for everyone to dislike in the Medicaid Reform bill passed this week.
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 11:43 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Director Courtney Cantrell, PhD, of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services, announced that four Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCO) were selected to pilot Critica
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 10:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The prescription for improving North Carolina's Medicaid program has been a repetitive talking point for the past two years. The initial game plan back in April 2013 was for the state to contract with at least three private managed care organizations (MCOs) to take on full risk for managing...
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 9:18 am
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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