GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 
SENATE BILL 973

Short Title:  Hemophilia Assistance Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Hunt; Martin of Pitt, Lee, and Martin of Guilford.
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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 provide better and safer treatment, including the blood products used in such treatment, of patients severely affected by hemophilia.  Funds appropriated under this section will be used for the Hemophilia Assistance Plan for people served through the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, the Duke University School of Medicine, the East Carolina University School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and Charlotte Memorial Hospital.  Funds appropriated under this section are in addition to any other funds appropriated to the Department for the treatment of hemophilia patients. 
Sec. 2. Payments through the Hemophilia Assistance Plan are exempt from the North Carolina Medical Assistance Program reimbursement rates due to the high cost of factor products.
Sec. 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.