Use of North Carolina Medicaid Collaborative Care Billing Codes After Statewide Approval for Reimbursement

Effective October 2018, North Carolina Medicaid approved reimbursement for collaborative care model (CoCM) billing codes. From October 2018 through December 2019, only 915 of the estimated two million eligible Medicaid beneficiaries had at least one CoCM claim, and the median number of claims per pa...

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Published inPsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 73; no. 12; pp. 1420 - 1423
Main Authors Copeland, J. Nathan, Jones, Kelley, Maslow, Gary R., French, Alexis, Davis, Naomi, Greiner, Melissa A., Heilbron, Nicole, Pullen, Samuel J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Psychiatric Association 01.12.2022
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc
Subjects
Beneficiaries
Humans
Insurance claims
Medicaid
North Carolina
Reimbursement
United States
North Carolina
United States
United States > US
Quality improvement
Research/service delivery
Public health
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Summary:Effective October 2018, North Carolina Medicaid approved reimbursement for collaborative care model (CoCM) billing codes. From October 2018 through December 2019, only 915 of the estimated two million eligible Medicaid beneficiaries had at least one CoCM claim, and the median number of claims per patient was two. Availability of reimbursement for CoCM Medicaid billing codes in North Carolina did not immediately result in robust utilization of CoCM. Furthermore, the low median number of claims per patient suggests lack of fidelity to CoCM. A better understanding of barriers to CoCM implementation is necessary to expand utilization of this evidence-based model.
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ISSN:1075-2730
1557-9700
DOI:10.1176/appi.ps.202200027