EXPAND MEDICAID TO INCLUDE ALL BELOW 133% FPL.

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View NCGA Bill Details2013-2014 Session
House Bill 1083 (Public) Filed Thursday, May 15, 2014
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO EXPAND ELIGIBILITY FOR THE MEDICAID PROGRAM TO INCLUDE ALL PEOPLE UNDER AGE SIXTY-FIVE WHO HAVE INCOMES EQUAL TO OR BELOW ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL, TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXPANSION, TO ACCOUNT FOR THE SAVINGS TO OTHER STATE PROGRAMS FROM THE EXPANSION, AND TO APPROPRIATE THE ADDITIONAL FUNDS GENERATED FROM EXPANSION TO THE MEDICAID REBASE.
Intro. by Insko, Earle, Luebke, Cunningham.

Status: Ref to the Com on Health and Human Services, if favorable, Appropriations (House Action) (May 19 2014)
H 1083

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: May 15 2014 - View Summary

    Identical to S 730, filed on May 14, 2014.

    Repeals SL 2013-5, provisions that prevented the expansion of Medicaid eligibility in North Carolina.

    Amends SL 2013-360, Section 12H.10(b), to add a new subsection 12H.10(b)(8), updating to whom the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will extend Medicaid coverage, providing that, effective January 1, 2015, all people under 65 with incomes equal to or less than 133% of the federal poverty guidelines should receive Medicaid coverage.

    Appropriates $17,081,916 to DHHS, Division of Medical Assistance, for fiscal year 2014-15, recurring, for administrative costs associated with the Medicaid expansion. Appropriation consists of $5,830,817 from the General Fund and $11,251,098 from federal Medicaid receipts for the federal share of administrative costs.

    Sets out reductions to appropriations that are based on forecasted savings by expanding Medicaid, including, reducing the appropriation to DHHS by $8,185,997, the appropriation for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program in DHHS by $14,308,623, and the appropriation for the Inmate Health Care program by $8.5 million.

    Appropriates $25,163,802 for fiscal year 2014-15, recurring, to the Medicaid program as part of Medicaid Rebase. This amount is in addition to that provided for Medicaid Rebase in SL 2013-360.

    Effective July 1, 2014.