A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to direct the Department of Health and Human Services, division of medical assistance, to develop a case management program for recipients having a large number of prescriptions, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION ON MEDICAID REFORM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Medical Assistance, shall develop a case management program to provide case management services to Medicaid recipients that have a large number of prescriptions.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall report on the development of the program not later than January 1, 2006, to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, and the Fiscal Research Division.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.