The Northwest AHEC Practice Support team is committed to bringing you up to date COVID-19 information and resources. Please send any questions or updates on blog content to Tamela Yount, MSHAI, PCMH CCE.

Medicaid Transformation Provider Services and North Carolina AHEC are conducting a series of Virtual Office Hours for providers beginning in March 2021. These sessions offer an interactive format for providers to have their questions answered.  

Medicaid Managed Care Fireside Chat Webinar Series 

2021 brings some exciting new changes to the guidelines for evaluation and management services. To reduce the administrative burden, the Evaluation & Management (E/M) documentation guidelines have been updated to provide more flexibility and allow providers to spend more time focusing on patient care and less on documentation and coding. Providers now have new options for documenting and reporting E/M visits.  

Advanced Medical Home, a Medicaid Managed Care Webinar Series 

The Northwest AHEC Practice Support Team is committed to promote understanding and improve the orientation of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) for North Carolinians. In order to support these goals, we will share a publication on SDOH each month on our Practice Support Blog. 

Effective January 1, 2021, NC Medicaid and NC Health Choice is temporarily covering Healthy Opportunities screenings to encourage providers to gain capacity for screening Medicaid beneficiaries for unmet health-related resource needs and referring them to appropriate community-based resources, prior to the launch of Medicaid managed care. 

Best Practices in Opioids Prescribing and Management Webinars

Subject Matter Experts Cover Topics in Pre-Recorded Lectures

As a family medicine or internal medicine clinician, two of the Northwest AHEC modules within the “Best Practices in Opioid Prescribing and Management” group may suit your continuing education needs and professional interests. Focusing on hospice and geriatric populations and developed by subject matter experts in those fields (Dr. Mark Corbett – Hospice and Dr. Jennifer Gabbard – Geriatrics), these online, on demand modules provide affordable continuing education credits. Check out the other modules too!

NCDHHS Launches New Vaccine Tools 

NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen, MD stated the Goal for North Carolina's Vaccine Program is to vaccinate as many people as quickly and equitably as possible, although supplies of the vaccine remains limited.  

North Carolinians have new tools to find out if they are eligible to get their vaccine and where to go to receive it.