Kaiser Health News
By Michael Tomsic
October 20, 2015
North Carolina is in the process of overhauling its Medicaid program. The governor and state lawmakers are using a mixture of health care models to put the major players – doctors, hospitals and insurers – all on the hook to keep rising costs in check.
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“The challenge lies in the fact that Medicaid is already a very lean program, and there’s just not a lot of fat to cut out there,” said Joan Alker of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. “The concern is, will the managed care company save money the right way or the wrong way?”
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