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September 11, 2018

NCIOM Annual Meeting Focused on Challenges and Benefits of Teamwork

By Kaitlin Phillips

“The vast majority of health improvement does not occur in office visits or hospitalizations,” Patrick Conway, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, said from…

August 29, 2018

What are Prepaid Health Plans?

By Kaitlin Phillips

By Berkeley Yorkery   Medicaid Prepaid Health Plans (PHPs) are coming to North Carolina as soon as November of 2019.[1] Under Medicaid transformation, the North Carolina Department of Health and…

August 17, 2018

A Growing Crisis

By Kaitlin Phillips

By Adam Zolotor, MD, DrPH   The headline in the New York Times on August 15 should alarm us all. A record was set of 72,000 overall drug overdose deaths…

August 14, 2018

What Does an Accountable Care Community Look Like?

By Brieanne Lyda-McDonald

By Brieanne Lyda-McDonald   With the growing understanding of the important role social determinants of health (SDOH) play in health outcomes, health systems and community stakeholders around the country are…