Bill Summaries: S730 (2013-2014 Session)

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  • Summary date: May 14 2014 - View summary

    Repeals SL 2013-5, provisions that prevented the expansion of Medicaid eligibility in North Carolina.

    Amends SL 2013-360, Section 12H.10(b), to add a new subsection 12H.10(b)(8), updating to whom the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will extend Medicaid coverage, providing that, effective January 1, 2015, all people under 65 with incomes equal to or less than 133% of the federal poverty guidelines should receive Medicaid coverage.

    Appropriates $17,081,916 to DHHS, Division of Medical Assistance, for fiscal year 2014-15, recurring, for administrative costs associated with the Medicaid expansion. Appropriation consists of $5,830,817 from the General Fund and $11,251,098 from federal Medicaid receipts for the federal share of administrative costs.

    Sets out reductions to appropriations that are based on forecasted savings by expanding Medicaid, including, reducing the appropriation to DHHS by $8,185,997, the appropriation for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program in DHHS by $14,308,623, and the appropriation for the Inmate Health Care program by $8.5 million.

    Appropriates $25,163,802 for fiscal year 2014-15, recurring, to the Medicaid program as part of Medicaid Rebase. This amount is in addition to that provided for Medicaid Rebase in SL 2013-360.

    Effective July 1, 2014.