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NC lawmakers give authority over the state’s mental health care system to DHHS secretary and hope for better outcomes

By Taylor Knopf North Carolina’s six local behavioral health management companies — known as LME-MCOs — will see some significant restructuring soon.  For years, patients, their families and mental health advocates have lodged repeated complaints about the lack of services some of the LME-MCOs provide and about the difficulty people have navigating the mental health system. […]