Is Primary Care Adapting to Medicaid Managed Care in North Carolina? Implications for Expansion and Future Managed Care Transitions

Realizing North Carolina’s comprehensive vision for Medicaid transformation requires strengthening the state’s primary care infrastructure. This can be done by build­ing upon the value-based care incentives in the Advanced Medical Home model, strengthening payor data, aligning quality measures, easing administrative burdens, investing in primary care and its workforce pipeline, and ensuring pay­ment models adequately support serving Medicaid expan­sion and the growing number of Medicaid health plans.