H546 - Medicaid Modernization. (SL 2025-64)

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Session Year 2025

Overview: Part I of S.L. 2025-64 (House Bill 546) makes justice-related changes to the North Carolina Medicaid program, including (i) directing the development of a new Medicaid team-based care coordination service for the screening and treatment of substance use disorder and (ii) directing the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Benefits (DHB), to continue to implement Medicaid policy changes required by federal law to suspend, rather than terminate, Medicaid benefits upon a Medicaid beneficiary's incarceration and to report on its progress.

This Part became effective July 7, 2025.