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Policy Change Means More NC Medicaid Recipients Denied Personal-Care Services

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Thousands of Medicaid recipients across North Carolina are being denied government-assisted funding for personal-care services. In April 2015, the Division of Medical Assistance changed the requirements for personal-care eligibility.

, the company tasked with approving the program's applicants, has rejected beneficiaries at a rate roughly four times higher than before the changes were implemented.

Host Frank Stasio talks with , staff investigative reporter for Carolina Public Press, about the new eligibility requirements for Medicaid recipients.

Charlie Shelton-Ormond is a podcast producer for ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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