Health management company Aetna has charged the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services with manipulating the process for awarding Medicaid managed care contracts to favor Blue Cross N.C. Aetna is taking legal action, asking a judge to force DHHS to award Aetna a Medicaid contract. The legal challenge, now before the N.C. Office of...
A group of House Republicans is taking another whack at what they call an alternative to Medicaid expansion so uninsured North Carolina residents can obtain health coverage. State Reps. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth; Josh Dobson, R-McDowell; Greg Murphy, R-Pitt; and Donna McDowell White, R-Johnston, held a news conference Tuesday, April 9, before they introduced House Bill...
The handoff of the state-operated single-payer Medicaid program to a private managed care system won’t provide taxpayers any immediate relief. That was the report Mark Collins, a member of the legislative Fiscal Research Division, gave Thursday to a joint legislative committee. “We’ve taken ourselves away from some of the risks surrounding utilization, and mix of...
