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NC-MIPS is Open for Program Year 2020, Program Year 2020 Webinar Series, The Security Risk Analysis (SRA) and Program Year 2021 Announcements.
This bulletin updates and extends NC Medicaid’s reimbursement for allowable COVID-19 testing of nursing facility staff and healthcare personnel. 
Clinical Coverage Policy 1A-22, Medically Necessary Circumcision, has been revised and will post with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2021 on the NC Medicaid website.
Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) organizations should continue to follow the guidance of local, state and federal officials regarding COVID-19 and thoroughly document reasoning for making decisions which may fall outside of the PACE program model.
Effective Oct. 1, 2020, NC Medicaid will now cover services for transversus abdominis plane blocks for Medicaid and NC Health Choice beneficiaries 11 years and older.
An amended version of Clinical Coverage Policy 1E-7, Family Planning Services with an effective date of Dec. 1, 2020, was posted to the NC Medicaid Clinical Coverage Policy webpage.
This bulletin revises the COVID-Response Site criteria established in SPECIAL BULLETIN COVID-19 #82.
The latest version of the Third-Party Liability Medicaid and NC Health Choice billing guide is available.
Effective with date of service Aug. 4, 2020, the Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs cover amisulpride injection, for intravenous use (Barhemsys®) for use in the Physician Administered Drug Program (PADP) when billed with HCPCS code J3490 - Unclassified drugs.
Effective July 26, 2020, Registered Dieticians and Nutritionists may enroll in Medicaid or the NC Health Choice program to provide and bill for this service for pregnant women and beneficiaries less than 21 years of age.