Notice Date: Feb. 1, 2021 

Advanced Medical Home Webinar Series 

Medicaid and NC Health Choice Provider and Health Plan Look-Up Tool

Medicaid recently released the Temporary Clinical Policy Modifications: Payment for Health Opportunities Screening and Referral. 

NC AHEC has developed a checklist to help primary care providers meet minimum requirements for the July 1, 2021 Go-Live of Medicaid Managed Care.  

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. This week, we would like to introduce an article "Suburban Families' Experience With Food Insecurity Screening in Primary Care Practices" from PubMed.Gov. Our practice support team has identified this article as a valuable resource to healthcare professionals in our region. The article touches on a number of food insecurity issues which enable the healthcare provider to look at the patient as a whole person instead of a specific condition in order to improve overall health outcomes.  

Recently, NC Division of Health Benefits (NC DHB) released some new provider resources on their Provider Playbook: Readiness page to help you prepare for the July 1, 2021 launch of Medicaid Managed Care.   

Attention all NC HealthConnex Participant Account Administrators (PAA) 

Special Bulletin COVID-19 #153 (1/21/21): Temporary Provider Rate Increases and Clinical Policy Changes Extended 

For inclusion in open enrollment and auto-enrollment, provider contracts must be signed and mailed to health plan by: