McCrory wants Medicaid patients in managed care plans

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The change would be significant for the state, which until now has relied on a home-grown managed care agency called Community Care North Carolina to create networks of doctors to care for Medicaid patients and work with people with chronic illnesses such as asthma. CCNC would be able to compete for a contract to offer one of the health plans, but it appears the CCNC would not continue in its current form. CCNC, a nonprofit, has been lauded as a national model for Medicaid management and received a national award for quality and efficiency Wednesday.

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Reaction to the proposal was mixed. The N.C. Medical Society, which represents doctors, said it wanted to learn more about the idea, but was critical of handing the job to profit-driven companies.

“If the administration’s idea of reform is bringing in out-of-state corporations so they can profit by limiting North Carolina patients’ access to health care and cutting critical medical services to our state’s most vulnerable citizens, that is not change we can support,” CEO Robert Seligson said in a statement.

He described CCNC as a homegrown nonprofit that addresses the problems McCrory identified. "We question the wisdom of handing this important function off to Wall Street,” Seligson said.

Dr. William Roper, CEO of UNC Health Care, called the administration plan “a bold initiative to improve Medicaid.”

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/04/03/2799110/mccrory-wants-medicaid-patients.html#storylink=cpy

Currently, 1.5 million people enrolled, $13 billion spent on Medicaid, with the federal government picking up > 60% of cost. They want this new plan in place by 2015.

[upaloopa]

1. Just more repub ideology in action. Privatize all government

functions so wealthy people can dip further into the national treasury while everyone else is left in poverty and sick and dying.

[Hoyt]

2. Actually, that is not a bad idea. Coordinated care beats the disjointed care

Medicaid patients often receive.

Would prefer to see more non-profits involved, and you can't trust the right wingers running red states nowadays. Obama Care will supposedly increase the number of non-profits, but we'll have to wait and see if they become contaminated.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. The idea is to hand the existing "coordinated care" network over to for profit corporations.

It is a horrible corrupt idea.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. with the increased efficiency of extracting around 20-30% of gross revenue .....

HUGH savings can be realized. For the investors.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

5. So Teabilly Guv wants to take an award-winning, national model non-profit Medicaid program

and put it in the hands of corprats who will destroy it for PROFIT. I wonder which corporations paid him on the condition that he'd do this for them?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

6. Yep... and I wonder where BCBSNC fits in.

Or doesn't fit in.