Section 108A-146.12 - Postpartum coverage component(a) The postpartum coverage component is twelve million five hundred thousand dollars ($12,500,000) for each quarter of the 2021-2022 State fiscal year.(b) For each quarter of the 2022-2023 State fiscal year prior to the State fiscal quarter in which G.S. 108A-54.3A(24) becomes effective, the postpartum coverage component is eleven million four thousand four hundred twenty-four dollars ($11,004,424). For any quarter of the 2022-2023 State fiscal year in which G.S. 108A-54.3A(24) becomes or is effective, the postpartum coverage component is four million five hundred thousand dollars ($4,500,000).(c) For each quarter of the 2023-2024 State fiscal year prior to the State fiscal quarter in which G.S. 108A-54.3A(24) becomes effective, the postpartum coverage component is eleven million four thousand four hundred twenty-four dollars ($11,004,424) increased by the Medicare Economic Index. For any quarter of the 2023-2024 State fiscal year in which G.S. 108A-54.3A(24) becomes or is effective, the postpartum coverage component is four million five hundred thousand dollars ($4,500,000).(d) For each quarter of the 2024-2025 State fiscal year, the postpartum coverage component is four million five hundred thousand dollars ($4,500,000) increased by the Medicare Economic Index.(e) Reserved for future codification purposes.(f) Reserved for future codification purposes.(g) Reserved for future codification purposes.(h) Reserved for future codification purposes.(i) For each State fiscal year after the 2025-2026 fiscal year, the postpartum coverage component shall be increased over the prior year's quarterly amount by the Medicare Economic Index.N.C. Gen. Stat. § 108A-146.12
Amended by 2023 N.C. Sess. Laws 7,s. 1.7-k, eff. 3/27/2023, op. on the first day of the next assessment quarter after the date the Current Operations Appropriations Act for the 2023-2024 fiscal year becomes law and applies to assessments imposed on or after that date..Amended by 2022 N.C. Sess. Laws 74,s. 9D.10-a, eff. 10/1/2022.Added by 2021 N.C. Sess. Laws 180,s. 9D.13A-c, eff. 1/1/2022, and applicable to modernized hospital assessments imposed under Part 2 of Article 7A of Chapter 108A of the General Statutes on or after that date.