NCMGMA Boasts Largest Advocacy Days Ever!

With over 115 attendees in-house on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, NCMGMA celebrated our largest-ever Advocacy Days event. Our speaker lineup this year included Attorney General Josh Stein; Chip Baggett, NCMS; Cody Hand, NCHS; NC State Treasurer Dale Folwell; Dr. Mandy Cohen, DHHS; and a panel that include four of the newest Medicaid Managed Care payors. Our speakers and panelists brought our attendees up-to-date on everything from the State Health Plan to the latest happenings with Medicaid Managed Care.

And just this morning, over 40 members set out to meet with their representatives at the North Carolina General Assembly to discuss important healthcare issues including:

• Joint HHS Appropriations Committee for Medicaid Managed Care and the importance of awareness of the additional requirements now shifting to the providers due to multiple types of Insurance Carriers. Additionally, changes to the Fee for Service contracts moving to value-based care contracts and the administrative burden shifting to providers.
• The Save Act asking providers not to vote for this bill as supervision from physicians is necessary to maintain the highest quality of care for our NC residents.
• HB184 - Study of State Health Plan Design, asking to keep the bill as it currently is until more definite options are in place for quality and cost savings for the members and taxpayers.
• S886 - In favor of the Small Business Healthcare Act reducing employees from 26 to 12.
• And more!

Thank you to all who came out for this year's Advocacy Days, and a big thank you to Melissa White and Cam Cox, NCMGMA's Advocacy Days co-chairs, for all their hard work in putting this event together for our members! 

View our 2019 Advocacy Days Flickr album here.

Don't forget to join us in Wilmington, May 8-10, 2019, for NCMGMA's Annual Conference to network and receive additional advocacy updates, including:

• A session on the Blue Premier Update from BCBSNC's Mark Werner,
• "The Health of Healthcare Politics in NC" from Representative Dr. Murphy and Representative Josh Dobson
• The "State of Change" with Nathan Babcock of Parker Poe
• And More!