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The Daily Bulletin: 2019-04-26
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H 106 (2019-2020) PED/INMATE HEALTH CARE REIMBURSEMENT. Filed Feb 19 2019, AN ACT TO IMPROVE INMATE HEALTH
CARE REIMBURSEMENT AND INTERNAL PROCESSES, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE JOINT LEGISLA TIVE PROGRAM
EVALUATION COMMITTEE.
House committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.
Adds to the content of the Department of Public Safety's (DPS) a plan to increase the use of Central Prison Healthcare
Complex (CPHC) to require the inclusion of methods to contain costs for palliative and long-term health care services for
inmates. No longer requires DPS to identify and eliminate lapsed salary positions used to fund inmate health care sendees for
2016-1 7, and transfer the salary funds to a DPS, Health Services Section (HSS) budget code. Instead, requires DPS to develop
options for eliminating the structural deficit for inmate health care sendees, including consideration of eliminating vacant
positions and transferring lapsed salary funds to the Health Services Section. No longer requires DPS to develop accounting
mechanisms for inmate health care expenditures at the prison facility level.
Amends GS 143B-707.3 as follows. Requires any contracts and extensions for medical services provided to inmates by
contracted providers and facilities to include the specified reimbursement rates, unless greater cost savings can be
demonstrated through the use of an alternative rate. Deletes proposed (bl ) which required the development of an electronic
supply inventory management system. Instead adds a section to the bill requiring the HHS to issue two requests for proposals
to develop an electronic supply inventory management system, with one RFP or a system to be used at all prison facilities and
one to be fora system to be used exclusively at the Central Prison Healthcare Complex and the North Carolina Correctional
Institution for Women. Sets out requirements of the management system.
Adds the requirement that the Department of Public Safety, Health Sendees Section, report to the specified NCGA committees
by February 1 . 2020, on alternative methods for reimbursing providers and facilities that provide approved medical sendees to
inmates.
Amends proposed GS 143B-707.5, to make the policies and training more specifically applicable to social workers who
perform administrative activities related to Medicaid eligibility for inmates.
Adds the requirement that HHS report to the specified NCGA committees on the feasibility study of telehealth sendees
referenced in the February 2019 Memorandum of Agreement between DPS and UNC Health Care by July 1, 2019. Requires
that the telemedicine pilot program be established with consideration of the rules of the study. Requires the pilot program to be
operational by January 1. 2020 (was, October 1, 2019). Deletes the requirement that physical health services covered by the
telemedicine pilot include evaluation and management activities in the specified areas. Extends the due dates of the interim and
final reports on the pilot assessment criteria from October to January of 2020 and 2021.
Intro, by Horn, Farmer-Butterfield, Lucas, R. Turner. GS I43B
Courts/Judiciary, Criminal Justice, Corrections
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(Sentencing/Probation), Government, Public Safety and
Emergency Management, State Agencies, Department of
Public Safety, Office of State Human Resources (formerly
Office of State Personnel), Health and Human Services,
Health, Health Insurance, Social Services, Public Assistance
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