GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 126
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE LAW RELATING TO THERAPEUTIC LEAVE FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PATIENTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 108A-62 reads as rewritten:
"§ 108A-62. Therapeutic leave for medical assistance patients.
Patients at an intermediate care facility or skilled nursing
facility may take up to 60 days of therapeutic leave in any 12- month period
one calendar year without the facility losing reimbursement under
the medical assistance program, provided, however, no more than 14 15
consecutive days may be taken without approval of the Department of Human
Resources, Division of Medical Assistance. Under no circumstances
shall the number of Medicaid-covered therapeutic leave days exceed 60 days per
patient per calendar year."
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1991, and applies to therapeutic leave taken on and after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of May, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives