Effective July 29, 2021, Session Law 2021-62 (NC Senate Bill 594), repeals portions of the 2020 COVID-19 Recovery Act that permitted the temporary lifting of certain enrollment requirements for providers enrolling in NC Medicaid during the global healthcare emergency.
The Public Health Emergency/Disaster Relief Provider Enrollment Application, an option made available to providers in March 2020, allowed for the limited-time enrollment of providers who rendered services to NC Medicaid beneficiaries during the COVID-19 global pandemic (not including providers who see NC Medicaid beneficiaries on a regular basis).
Effective July 29, 2021, disaster applications will no longer be accepted, and providers who were enrolled in NC Medicaid with the disaster relief application will be terminated effective July 28, 2021.
Additionally, the NC Medicaid provider enrollment criteria suspended for all providers under House Bill 1043 will be required again effective July 29, 2021. Therefore, in-person provider site visits and fingerprint-based criminal background checks will resume for providers in accordance with the Provider Permission Matrix, located on the Provider Enrollment page of the NCTracks secure provider portal.
Providers who were enrolled under the waived site visit and fingerprinting requirements will be subject to full credentialing at a later date, yet to be determined, in order to continue participation in the NC Medicaid program. More details will be forthcoming.
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