North Carolina's Healthy Opportunities Pilots (HOP) is a Medicaid program

that addresses healthy food, housing, interpersonal violence, and

transportation. By keeping people healthy in their communities, the program

has yielded savings of $164 per participant per month. The program is

paused due to a budget impasse, but is poised to return. Jake explores HOP

with Dr. Betsey Tilson, who served as State Health Director and Chief

Medical Officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human

Services when HOP was rolled out, and is currently the Executive Director

of Nurture NC, where she’s working to improve maternal health.