GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	2
HOUSE BILL 216*
 Committee Substitute Favorable 3/28/01

Short Title:	Medicaid Draft Plan Amend/Adult Day Health.	()	
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February 22, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO submit a draft plan amendment to provide medicaid coverage to adult day health care services.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall submit to the United States Health Care Financing Administration a draft Medicaid State Plan amendment to provide coverage for adult day health care services.  The Department shall request comment from the Health Care Financing Administration on the amendment and whether it would be approved as submitted.  The Department shall report the status of the draft State Plan amendment to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Human Resources and the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services on October 1, 2001, and March 1, 2002. The report shall include comment from the Health Care Financing Administration on the draft State Plan amendment.  If the draft amendment receives a favorable reply from the Health Care Financing Administration, the report shall also include the estimated amount of funds needed to implement a State Plan amendment. Nothing in this act obligates the General Assembly to appropriate funds to implement a Medicaid State Plan amendment.  
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.