North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced on September 22, that the state’s $30 billion budget bill will become law and effective on October 1. The budget bill funds the North Carolina Medicaid expansion agreement that was signed in March, but was pending budgetary approval before Medicaid coverage could be implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”).[1] The Medicaid expansion legislation does not include a specific date when eligibility rules will change, but Governor Cooper and DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley announced in a press conference on September 25 that DHHS will launch expansion on December 1.
