December 17, 2018
Pinehurst, NC (December 6, 2018). First In Families NC (FIFNC) has won the i2i Center’s Individual and Family Initiatives Innovation award for 2018. i2i’s Executive Director Mary Hooper explained, “The purpose of the Innovation Awards is to recognize innovation in services and programming to increase integrated, whole person approaches to care. This was the first…
Read moreNovember 29, 2018
Included in the North Carolina 1115 Medicaid waiver that was just approved by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was a waiver request on the Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion that applies to substance use disorder facilities with 16 or more beds. This waiver will allow Medicaid funds to be used…
Read moreHurricane Florence barreled down on North Carolina through most of the week of September 10th, 2018. That seems like a long time ago, but the recovery process is ongoing. The impact—both service and cost related—is difficult to tally for the BH/IDD public system, partly because the costs can continue for several months after the actual…
Read moreNovember 15, 2018
The November elections brought changes to the make-up of the 2019 General Assembly and specifically to the health and human services committees. It is too early to say how that will impact future discussions on the public BH/IDD system and the public health and human service system as a whole. Current legislators are not quite…
Read moreOctober 31, 2018
NC DHHS announced on October 24th that the 1115 Medicaid waiver application has been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS). This approval was a major hurdle to overcome and now almost guarantees the timeline that NC DHHS had set for implementation going forward. The approved waiver includes the BH/IDD Tailored Plans…
Read moreOctober 25, 2018
(October 25, 2018) Eastpointe is now a high level Champion Supporter for the i2i Center for Integrative Health. Mary Hooper, i2i Center Executive Director said, “I am so pleased that Eastpointe is now a Champion supporter. Eastpointe has a clear commitment to improving and expanding whole person integrated care in their region. We welcome Eastpointe’s…
Read moreOctober 24, 2018
Today, NC DHHS confirmed they received approval from CMS for the Medicaid 1115 Waiver to move ahead with Medicaid managed care and integrated health. More info https://www.ncdhhs.gov/assistance/medicaid-transformation You can also find summary briefs on issues affecting BH/IDD services integration on our Medicaid Transformation page.
Read moreOctober 22, 2018
DHHS has posted on their website the names of the organizations that responded to the Standard Plan RFP to be either a statewide plan or a provider-led entity. They are as follows: Aetna AmeriHealth Caritas North Carolina Healthy Blue – a partnership of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and Amerigroup Partnership Plan…
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