Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition. 

Section 1.

Directs the NC Medical Care Commission (Commission) to notify the Revisor of Statutes (Revisor) when the rules required under GS 131E-214.13 take effect.  

Section 2.

Amends GS 131E-214.31 (fair notice requirements) so that it applies when a healthcare provider not participating in the insurer’s network provides the described services (previously, applied to in-network providers). Makes a clarifying change.

Section 3.

Directs the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to notify the Revisor when the rules required under GS 131A-214.52 take effect.

Section 4.

Requires DHHS to notify the Revisor when the rules adopted under GS 131E-214.54 take effect.

Section 7.

Removes amendments to GS 90-29(c) (which expanded the acts that are not considered the “unlawful practice of dentistry” to include the mechanism by which a management company (defined), and a licensee establish the fee in a management arrangement (defined)). Makes a conforming change.

Makes organizational changes.