A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require medicaid and nc health choice reimbursement to federally qualified health centers for telemedicine, telepsychiatry, and clinical pharmacist practitioner services.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) shall ensure Medicaid and NC Health Choice coverage of telemedicine and telepsychiatry services that are provided through a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), and shall consider these services to be core services. DHHS shall provide Medicaid and NC Health Choice reimbursement for telemedicine and telepsychiatry services provided through an FQHC through the prospective payment system (PPS) at one hundred percent (100%) of the PPS rate.
SECTION 2.  The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) shall ensure Medicaid and NC Health Choice coverage of clinical pharmacist practitioner services provided through a Federally Qualified Health Center.
SECTION 3.  The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) shall amend Clinical Coverage Policy No: 1H, Telemedicine and Telepsychiatry and Clinical Coverage Policy 1D‑4, Core Services as necessary to implement this act. DHHS shall submit to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services any waivers or amendments to the NC Medicaid State Plan necessary to implement this act.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2020.