As federal authorities weigh the North Carolina legislature’s request to privatize Medicaid services here, a Raleigh-based nonprofit that manages 1.6 million Medicaid patients for the state said it continues delivering financial savings and improved health outcomes for patients. The nonprofit organization, Community Care of North Carolina, or CCNC, published its 2015 performance measures in the summer issue of N.C. Medical Journal, the first time that CCNC has publicized its performance in such a fashion. The Journal’s editors requested the submission for a special July/August issue dedicated to the subject of value-based care, an emerging health care trend that seeks to measure quality as it relates to the cost of providing care. The data is timely because most legislators and the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services want to phase out CCNC’s approach to administering Medicaid and adopt a managed care system instead. The state has …
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As NC seeks to privatize Medicaid, nonprofit touts cost savings – News & Observer