North Carolina General Statutes 108A-62. Therapeutic leave for medical assistance patients
(a) A medical assistance beneficiary at an intermediate care facility or skilled nursing facility may take therapeutic leave in accordance with this section without the facility losing reimbursement under the medical assistance program.
(b) The maximum amount of therapeutic leave days that may be taken in a calendar year by a medical assistance beneficiary are as follows:
(1) Ninety days for a beneficiary in an intermediate care facility.
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 108A-62
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
(2) Sixty days for a beneficiary in a skilled nursing facility.
(c) No more than 15 consecutive days of therapeutic leave may be taken by a medical assistance beneficiary without the approval of one of the following:
(1) The Division of Health Benefits of the Department.
(2) The local management entity/managed care organization with which the beneficiary is enrolled under Chapter 122C of the N.C. Gen. Stat..
(3) The prepaid health plan with which the beneficiary is enrolled under Chapter 108D of the N.C. Gen. Stat.. (1979, c. 925; 1981, c. 275, s. 1; 1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 1014, s. 120; 1991, c. 126, s. 1; 1997-443, s. 11A.118(a); 2019-81, s. 15(a); 2021-62, s. 3.1(a).)