GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION
S.L. 1997-123
AN ACT PERTAINING TO CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE CONTRACTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 131E-99 reads as rewritten:
"§ 131E-99. Confidentiality of health care contracts.
The financial terms or and other competitive
health care information directly related to the financial terms in a health
care services contract related to the provision of health care between
a hospital or a medical school and a managed care organization,
insurance company, employer, or other payer is confidential and not a public
record under Chapter 132 of the General Statutes. Nothing in this
section shall prevent an elected public body which has responsibility for the
hospital or medical school from having access to this confidential information
in a closed session. The disclosure to a public body does not affect the
confidentiality of the information. Members of the public body shall have
a duty not to further disclose the confidential information."
Section 2. Section 4 of Chapter 713 of the 1995 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 4. This act is effective upon
ratification. Section 2 of this act shall not affect any litigation
pending as of the effective date of Section 2. Section 2, but
otherwise shall apply to contracts entered into before, on, or after the
effective date. Section 2 of this act expires June 1, 1997."
Section 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of May, 1997.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 4:37 p.m. this 29th day of May, 1997