Innovative Medicaid Services for Children in Foster Care Request for Input
Background
In an effort to improve delivery and access to behavioral health services for children and youth in North Carolina, the State’s General Assembly allocated $22 million in recurring funding to enhance Medicaid services available to children and youth in foster care.
To determine how the funding is allocated, NC Medicaid, in coordination with the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Services, the Division of Child and Family Well-Being and the Division of Social Services, seeks stakeholder input to help identify:
- Critical service gaps for children and youth in foster care
- Innovative NC Medicaid services that can help to address these gaps
Concept Paper Feedback
NC Medicaid seeks stakeholder input via a Concept Paper Solicitation survey on key gaps in services for children in foster care and priority Medicaid services to address these gaps that could be funded with the $22 million recurring funding.
NC Medicaid encourages all stakeholders, including Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations, health plans, provider associations, providers, county child welfare agencies, individuals with lived experience and others to provide input through the survey. Please complete the Innovative Medicaid Services for Children in Foster Care Concept Paper Solicitation survey no later than Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.
Responses from stakeholders will help determine decisions regarding the use of funds. No funding awards will be made directly to health plans or providers because of this solicitation. As directed by the legislature and noted above, funding must be distributed through capitated contracts and as such, limits the State’s ability to use the funding for provider-level capacity building. This is not a grant opportunity.
Following the selection of services, NC Medicaid will work to secure the needed authorities needed to effectuate funding through capitation.
For questions, email Medicaid.NCEngagement@dhhs.nc.gov with “Foster Care Service Gaps” in the subject line.