Healthcare Innovation October 18, 2024
New entities called network leads provide a bridge between managed care plans and community-based organizations
Earlier this year, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced it was expanding its Medicaid Healthy Opportunities Pilot (HOP) project, which addresses people’s social needs with services like food, housing, and transportation. During a recent webinar, Sarah Rideout, the leader of an organization that bridges healthcare and social services organizations for the initiative, described her group’s role.
Rideout is the HOP Program Director for one of the “network leads” in the program, the Community Care of Lower Cape Fear. Network leads serve as local anchors to build the capacity of community-based organizations to participate in Medicaid, including by distributing capacity-building funds and...
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