North Carolina General Statutes 108A-54.1A. Amendments to Medicaid State Plan and Medicaid Waivers
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 108A-54.1A
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
(a) The Department of Health and Human Services is expressly authorized and required to take any and all necessary action to amend the State Plan and waivers in order to keep the program within the certified budget, except as provided in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 108A-54(f). For purposes of this section, the term “amendments to the State Plan” includes State Plan amendments, Waivers, and Waiver amendments.
(b), (c) Repealed by Session Laws 2015-245, s. 18, effective September 23, 2015.
(d) No fewer than 10 days prior to submitting an amendment to the State Plan to the federal government, the Department shall post the amendment on its Web site and notify the members of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Medicaid and the Fiscal Research Division that the amendment has been posted. For any amendments to the State Plan that add or eliminate an optional service, the notice required by this subsection shall be 90 days. This notice requirement shall not apply to draft or proposed amendments submitted to the federal government for comments but not submitted for approval.
(e) Repealed by Session Laws 2015-245, s. 18, effective September 23, 2015.
(f) Any public notice required under 42 C.F.R. § 447.205 shall, in addition to any other posting requirements under federal law, be posted on the Department’s Web site. Upon posting such a public notice, the Department shall notify the members of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Medicaid and the Fiscal Research Division that the public notice has been posted. Public notices shall remain posted on the Department’s Web site. (2013-360, s. 12H.2(a); 2014-100, s. 12H.21(a); 2015-245, s. 18; 2022-74, s. 9D.15(z), (bb).)