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Nearly 40 employees connected to North Carolina’s Medicaid Ombudsman program, including nine at Pisgah Legal Services, will lose their jobs by the end of the year because of a $33 million shortfall in the state’s Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Fund.
The Medicaid Ombudsman program, which connects thousands of beneficiaries to resources and advice and which Legal Aid of North Carolina has run since 2021 for the state’s Department of Health and Human Services, will move to NCDHHS’ Division of Health Benefits on Jan. 1, department officials told Asheville Watchdog.…