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H555 • 2025

Medicaid Telehealth Services.

Medicaid Telehealth Services.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Lambeth, Brisson, K. Brown, Campbell, Carney, Cervania, Colvin, Crawford, Greenfield, Harrison, Hawkins, F. Jackson, Loftis, R. Pierce, Potts, Prather, Reeder, Ward
Last action
2025-04-17
Official status
Serial Referral To Finance Stricken
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Medicaid Telehealth Services.

Medicaid Telehealth Services.

What This Bill Does

  • Medicaid Telehealth Services.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-17 House

    Serial Referral To Finance Stricken

  2. 2025-03-31 House

    Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Insurance, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  3. 2025-03-31 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  4. 2025-03-27 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Medicaid Telehealth Services.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 555

Short Title: Medicaid Telehealth Services. (Public)
Sponsors: Representative Lambeth.
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Health, if favorable, Insurance, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules,
Calendar, and Operations of the House
March 31, 2025
*H555-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO ENSURE THAT CERTAIN PROVIDERS OF TELEHEALTH SERVICES ARE 2
ELIGIBLE TO ENROLL AS MEDICAID PROVIDERS. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. The Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health 5
Benefits, shall ensure that a health care provider duly licensed by the State that provides health 6
care services exclusively through telemedicine services shall not be required to maintain a 7
physical presence in the State to be considered an eligible provider for enrollment as a Medicaid 8
provider. 9
SECTION 2. The Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health 10
Benefits, shall ensure that a medical provider group with health care p roviders duly licensed by 11
the State which exclusively offers telemedicine services shall not be required to have an in-State 12
service address to be eligible to enroll as a Medicaid provider group. 13
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law. 14