GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1556

Short Title:  Medicaid Funds/Child Dental Care.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Cansler; Sherrill, Walend, and McLawhorn.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 17, 2000

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATE FOR DENTAL CARE FOR MEDICAID-ELIGIBLE CHILDREN.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall allocate from existing Medicaid funds the sum of twenty-eight million five hundred thousand dollars ($28,500,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to increase the Medicaid reimbursement rate for dental care for Medicaid eligible children to eighty percent (80%) of the dental reimbursement rate applied by the University of North Carolina Dental School.
Section 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 2000.