In 2008, state legislators and Medicaid administrators asked Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), initially launched as a managed care program for the state's Medicaid recipients, to expand the system's scope of practice to integrate Medicaid's aged, blind and disabled recipients into its medical home model. Although this group represents only about 30 percent of the N.C. Medicaid population, it generates about 70 percent of the program's health care costs because of the patients' complex chronic conditions and related high hospitalization and readmission rates.
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April 22, 2015
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