A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO DIRECT THE Department of Health and Human Services TO ALLOCATE FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO AID COUNTIES WITH MEDICAID PAYMENTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall, from funds appropriated for this purpose, allocate funds to each county to reduce the county's cost of Medicaid expenditures, excluding administrative costs. The allocation shall be a percentage of funds appropriated that is equal to the percentage that the county's Medicaid expenditures bears to total State Medicaid expenditures.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.