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North Carolina.
A late change to a bill giving more power to groups that oversee behavioral-health services in the state is raising concerns among advocates because the new language allows oversight groups to gain even more authority than the initial bill did.

The changes would allow a local management entity (LME), such as CenterPoint Human Services, to become a behaviorial health authority after three years of serving as a managed-care organization (MCO) under the "Medicaid" waiver program being rolled out in the state.

The waiver program is intended to combine the management of "Medicaid" and state funds at the community level to reduce costs and add more accountability. MCOs would operate with fewer restrictions on how they manage the mental-health, developmental-disability and substance-abuse providers and services they oversee.
http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2012/jun/18/wsmain01-changes-to-bill-would-give-more-power-to--ar-2364680/