AUG. 4, 2022 | COMMUNICATION BULLETIN 2022-23 ISSUE 7 IN THIS ISSUE: Provider Touchpoint | NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative Formalize a Statewide Network for Child Treatment Providers | Tobacco Cessation Trainings
Provider Touchpoint Friday, August 12, 2022, 11 a.m.- 12 p.m. Provider Touchpoint is your source for the latest information on topics that affect Vaya Health network providers. We encourage all network providers to attend. Registration is not required. The link to each webinar is published both the week prior to and the week of the event in the Provider Communication Bulletin.
PROVIDER TOUCHPOINT – AUG. 12, 2022
NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative Formalize a Statewide Network for Child Treatment Providers North Carolina’s six LME/MCOs launched the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative in May 2022 to create a statewide solution to pressing challenges facing the state’s service delivery system for youth in foster care. Building on the early successes of the initiative, the LME/MCOs are moving forward to formalize a statewide network of child treatment providers . This network will help ensure youth in foster care have access to the services they need and continuity of care without delay when moving from one area of North Carolina to another. From Aug. 1-30, 2022, all LME/MCOs will offer an open enrollment period for Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF), Level IV, Level III, Level II group and family, and Facility-Based Crisis (FBC) providers. If you provide one of these services, you may apply to join Vaya’s provider network by completing both of the following steps: Enroll with NC Tracks: Your provider agency must be enrolled in NCTracks. Information must include NPI, taxonomy, sites, and affiliated clinicians to continue to contract with or to make changes to your contract with Vaya. Submit an application to Vaya: Submit a completed Provider Enrollment Form before Aug. 30, 2022. We encourage you to contract with each LME/MCO to maximize statewide resources for children and adolescents. For more information about becoming a Vaya network provider, please use the links
below: Alliance Health (Cumberland, Durham, Johnston, Mecklenburg, Orange, and Wake counties) Eastpointe (Duplin, Edgecombe, Greene, Lenoir, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Warren, Wayne, and Wilson counties) Partners Health Management (Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Forsyth, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Rutherford, Stanly, Surry, Union, and Yadkin counties) Sandhills Center (Anson, Davidson, Guilford, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, and Rockingham counties) Trillium Health Resources (Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, and Washington counties) Vaya Health (Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Caldwell, Caswell, Chatham, Cherokee, Clay, Franklin, Graham, Granville, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Person, Polk, Rowan, Stokes, Swain, Transylvania, Vance, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties) Out-of-Network Providers For providers who do not want to join an LME/MCO network, all LME/MCOs will offer out-of-network agreements for community-based and non-hospital services. Although NCDHHS directs reimbursement for these services to be 90% of the Medicaid rate, the six LME/MCOs have agreed to pay at least 100% of the Medicaid rate for these services to strengthen statewide network and service capacity. Questions? If you have questions or need help requesting to join the Vaya provider network, call our Provider Help Line at 1-866-990-9712 or email provider.info@vayahealth.com.
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Tobacco Cessation Trainings Two trainings in August are designed to help providers better integrate tobacco cessation treatment and ensure their campuses become 100% tobacco-free in advance of the State’s tobacco-free policy requirement. Aug. 9, 2022, 12-1:30 p.m.: You Quit, Two Quit: Helping Clients Become Tobacco Free Before, During and After Pregnancy (UNC Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health). Register online. Aug. 24, 2022, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.: Breathe Easy NC Becoming Tobacco Free (Duke UNC Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Program). Register online.
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