A Look at North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Medicaid Pilot

In the quest for value, what is the actual cost of health care delivery transformation, and what investments must health care providers, payers, and other stakeholders make to effectively integrate social determinants of health across the health care system? Leah Mayo, Interim Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Healthy Equity, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina Wilmington, speaks with Sarah Ridout, Healthy Opportunities Pilot Program Director, Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear, and Tina Simpson, Principal Consultant, Atrómitos, about North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Medicaid Pilot (NCHOP) and the lessons learned a year into its implementation. NCHOP is the first time CMS has approved the use of federal Medicaid funds to pay for non-medical social support services to qualifying Medicaid beneficiaries.Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Premium members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast. Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.

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