NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1288

HOUSE BILL 1731

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PHARMACISTS' DISPENSING FEE IN THE MEDICAID PROGRAM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Medical Assistance, the sum of one hundred twenty-seven thousand five hundred forty dollars ($127,540) in fiscal year 1980-81 for the purpose of increasing the dispensing fee, excluding refills, paid to pharmacists in the Medicaid program from $2.68 to $2.80.

Sec. 2.  Section 23 of Chapter 838 of the 1979 Session Laws is amended in the chart headed:

"Services Payment Basis" in the item "Drugs", by deleting the amount, "$2.68", and substituting "$2.80".

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1980.