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.