MEDICAID REBASE FUNDING. (NEW)

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View NCGA Bill Details2025-2026 Session
House Bill 491 (Public) Filed Monday, March 24, 2025
AN ACT TO FUND THE MEDICAID REBASE.
Intro. by Lambeth, Rhyne, White, Dixon.

Status: Held by House Clerk (House action) (Oct 23 2025)

SOG comments (1):

Long title change

Previous title was AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPEDIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF MEDICAID WORK REQUIREMENTS.

H 491

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Oct 21 2025 - View Summary

    House committee substitute to the 1st edition removes the content of the previous edition and replaces it with the following. Makes conforming changes to the act's titles.

    Appropriates $190 million in nonrecurring funds and associated receipts for 2025-26 from the Medicaid Contingency Reserve to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Benefits (DHB), to adjust Medicaid funding to account for projected changes in enrollment, enrollment mix, service and capitation costs, and federal match rates, as well as implementation of the Children and Families Specialty Plan in December 2025.

    Instructs the four listed local management entities/managed care organizations (LME/MCOs) to make intergovernmental transfers to DHB in an aggregate amount of $18,028,217 for both the 2025-26 and 2026-27 years. Specifies that the due date and frequency of the intergovernmental transfer required by the act will be determined by DHB. Specifies the amounts that each of the four individual LME/MCOs is required to make in each fiscal year. Specifies that in the event that a county disengages from an LME/MCO and realigns with another LME/MCO during the 2025-27 biennium, DHB has the authority to reallocate the amount of the intergovernmental transfer that each affected LME/MCO is required to make under the act, taking into consideration the change in catchment area and covered population, provided that the aggregate amount of the transfers received from all LME/MCOs in each year of the fiscal biennium is achieved.

    Effective retroactively to July 1, 2025.


  • Summary date: Mar 24 2025 - View Summary

    Identical to S 403, filed 3/24/25.

    Amends Section 2.4 of SL 2023-7 by adding a requirement to the report provided to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Medicaid and the Fiscal Research Division by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Health Benefits (DHB) that the DHB report include full details of any funding needed to implement or maintain work requirements. Provides that DHHS must implement any work requirements as a condition of Medicaid participation approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in accordance with this section, regardless of any GS 108A-54.3A provisions to the contrary.