In 2022, North Carolina launched the Healthy Opportunities Pilots, a first-of-a-kind effort to use Medicaid to address health-related social needs at scale. It is available in three regions of the state and focused on four areas linked with health outcomes: safe and affordable housing, healthy foods, accessible transportation, and violence remediation. Services in these areas are provided by local community organizations who are paid by insurance plans as if they were health care providers.
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