NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1297

HOUSE BILL 1762

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES TO PURCHASE HEALTH SERVICES ON A PREPAID BASIS FOR MEDICAID RECIPIENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 23 of Chapter 838 of the 1979 Session Laws is amended by adding at the end the following:

"The Department of Human Resources, Division of Medical Assistance, is authorized, subject to approval of a change in the State Medicaid Plan by the Director of the Budget and the Advisory Services Budget Commission, to purchase health care services on a prepaid basis."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1980.