title: Providers develop health plan to manage Medicaid patients without woes of HMOs.
abstract: Managing Medicaid lives without HMOs. Providers in Pitt County, NC, have developed their own kind of managed care plan that brings together traditional Medicaid providers with private physicians seeking to improve care quality and patient access. Providers in the plan hope it can keep commercial HMOs out of the local Medicaid business.
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