GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 364

Short Title:  GPAC/MMIS Replacement Plan.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
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Referred to:  Government Performance Audit.
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February 24, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO REPLACE THE CURRENT MEDICAID MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MMIS).
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The General Assembly finds that, when the current base contract with the Medicaid fiscal agent ends on June 30, 1993, the State should begin to develop a plan to replace the existing Medicaid Management Information System.  The General Assembly finds that, under the current system, useful data on health care services and expenditures are limited.
Sec. 2.  The Division of Medical Assistance, Department of Human Resources, shall develop a plan for the replacement of the current Medicaid Management Information System.  Development of the plan shall:
(1)	Focus on Medicaid future directions, such as expanded managed care;
(2)	Have as the highest priority the design of a system capable of supporting many, if not all, of North Carolina's publicly administered health care programs;
(3)	Be in concert with, but in advance of, federal health care reform planning, to provide North Carolina with the full opportunity to define and promote a strategy consistent with State political and social objectives; and
(4)	Include representation from each agency involved in health care claims processing.
The Division shall report the plan, implementation schedule, and detailed fiscal analysis to the 1993 General Assembly by January 1, 1995.
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Medical Assistance, Department of Human Resources, the sum of two hundred twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($227,500) for the 1993-94 fiscal year to implement this act.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.