Senate Set To Take Up Managed Care Medicaid Plan

RALEIGH — Today’s Senate calendar includes a measure revamping Medicaid from the current fee-for-service model to one paying providers a set per-member-per month fee, moving Medicaid from the Department of Health and Human Services to a new department, and allowing hospital- and physician-led accountable care organizations to bid against insurance-based managed care organizations for regional contracts. The health plans would pick up expenses exceeding budgets.