GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 776

Short Title:  Hemophilia Assistance Plan.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Michaux; Alexander, Diamont, Easterling, Gardner, Green, Ives, and Luebke.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 7, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA HEMOPHILIA ASSISTANCE PLAN.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of two million nine hundred thousand dollars ($2,900,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of two million nine hundred thousand dollars ($2,900,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to be used to provide better and safer treatment, including the blood products used in those treatments, of patients severely affected by hemophilia who are served through the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and Charlotte Memorial Hospital.  These funds are in addition to any other funds appropriated to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for the treatment of hemophilia patients.
Sec. 2. Payments through the Hemophilia Assistance Plan are exempt from the North Carolina Medicaid Assistance Program reimbursement rates because of the high cost of factor products.
Sec. 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.